Sentence examples for attempts to refine from inspiring English sources

Because of concerns about its inadequacy - and the impact on the Iraqi people - we made several attempts to refine it, culminating in a new UN resolution in May of this year.

One of these, the chalumeau (a term also used for a double-reed instrument), was known to Denner; apparently his attempts to refine the chalumeau led to his invention of the clarinet.

Such changes, and attempts to refine the criteria for any particular rating, represent an earnest attempt to keep abreast of public sensitivities even as they also suggest the quixotic nature of the enterprise.

The latter parameter in particular is difficult to determine, although AMIE attempts to refine it through the ingestion of many types of data.

Apart from the general ability of bisphosphonates to chelate Ca2+ and thus target the calcium phosphate mineral component of bone, attempts to refine clear structure activity relationships had led to ambiguous or seemingly contradictory results.

OBSCENITY offers a variety of images some gentle, some romantic, some spiritual, some grotesque that attempts to refine and redefine the nature of the fetish and the taboo, to sanctify this imagery and position it more closely to godliness.

Architectural projects from the time, many of them built for artists and their patrons - attempt to refine and reduce architectural design to elemental components.

Recent efforts in international economics have attempted to refine the Heckscher-Ohlin model and test it on a wider range of empirical evidence.

Though Iran attempted to refine heavy grade Forouzan oil for the first time at its Bandar Abbas refinery in August 2008, it is unclear whether, and to what extent, the effort to refine the heavy oil was successful.

Definitions of disability culture and the process of enacting that culture suggest that embodiment, or the experience of disability, may be a more-effective way of understanding impairment than attempting to refine or develop universal descriptions and categories of impairment.

He'd assumed that on some level his revelation wouldn't be taken as a revelation — that the world knew by now that Internet companies collate and analyze data about their users, and often manipulate behavior, in an attempt to refine their services or to achieve world domination.