Sentence examples for devoted a major effort from inspiring English sources

As president he continued the economic policies of his predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, but devoted a major effort to restoring public confidence, which was so badly damaged by the scandals of the Salinas administration.

In this specific situation, the Japanese PES does not need to devote a major effort to activation since the unemployed have strong work incentives.

Yet a museum has never devoted a major exhibition to the history of this group.

Over the last decade there has been a major effort devoted to the development of efficient extreme UV sources designed for nanolithography, operating in the 13.5-nm range.

A major effort is devoted to integral experiments with the objective to provide the experimental database for testing the nuclear data and validating neutronics design calculations.

A major effort was devoted to quenching behaviour and a substantial achievement of the project was the design and commissioning of a new facility for the simulation of quenching of intact fuel rods.

A major effort has been devoted to optimizing the computation speed using state-of-the-art algorithms for the time-consuming parts of the calculations implemented in the core of the program using the C programming language.

A major effort has been devoted to the detection of mutations, loss of heterozygosity (LOH), microsatellites and the methylation status of DNA extracted from tumor tissue and plasma or serum of patients suffering from various tumours (Vasioukhin et al, 1994; Chen et al, 1996; Nawroz et al, 1996; Wong et al, 1999).

But it had been a major effort.

"It was a major effort".

It was a major effort that failed.