Sentence examples for century of effort from inspiring English sources

And that began nearly a century of effort to create a clear red line for the international community.

Despite almost a century of effort, the world's physicists have not been able to show how these theories work together.

The series had been absent from the United States for five years after struggling to find its place in America despite more than half a century of effort.

What made the passage of health reform historic is that, after almost a century of effort to reverse this, hope has arrived.

World of Art Interpreted by artists like Picasso, Miro, Robert Rauschenberg and Victor Vasarely, more than half a century of effort addressed to disarmament, the plight of refugees and other humanitarian causes goes on view today in an exhibition of 125 United Nations posters.

It represents more than a century of effort on the part of hundreds of learned scholars who have compiled an inventory of all the English words that have been in substantial use since 1150 A.D. It does a wonderful job of documenting the meaning, usage, pronunciation and etymology of these words and is a stunning intellectual accomplishment in almost every possible way.

There is just one problem with this picture, which results from nearly a century of efforts to sustain the plump white birds along their migratory paths.

Those memorial plans may even provide a perfect illustration of a fault line that has been getting more obvious after a century of efforts to understand and redesign the American city.

But using the expression "private matter" runs contrary to more than a century of efforts in the United States, through laws and public awareness, to ensure that "violence at home is treated the same as violence on the streets," said Kathleen Krenek, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, which assists battered women in Santa Clara County.

Over half a century of efforts to protect the aquifer from industry have yielded results but more needs to be done.

Despite more than a century of efforts to define the structure and function of chromatin, many of the basic mechanisms that govern the formation of differentiated chromatin types remain poorly understood, and their biological role is largely unknown.