Sentence examples for earnest measures from inspiring English sources

"Despite several earnest measures by the Census Bureau, the federal effort to enumerate the homeless population in the national census remains inadequate," said Brendan Kearns, a researcher with the National Coalition for the Homeless.

No cigarettes… A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

"Foreign investors want to see earnest restructuring measures, but even exact debt figures are still not clear".

Of course, such statistics might be beside the point: it's hard to tell if the patrols are an earnest safety measure or simply a publicity stunt an attempt to give a nice, community-service face to prejudice.

Of course, such statistics are beside the point: the patrols aren't an earnest safety measure so much as a cross between a publicity stunt and an attempt to give a nice, community-service face to prejudice – the white-pride safety squad here to clean up your campus.

The "Steven Tyler Act," an earnest but boneheaded measure now being considered in Hawaii's Legislature, gives celebrities the right to sue paparazzi and collect general, special and punitive damages for taking unwanted photographs.

Sancho addresses the audience; his tone, sardonic and earnest in equal measure, is quite like Joseph's own, though now it features the lisp that Sancho's contemporaries used as an excuse to keep him away from the theatre.

There is an increasing awareness about the risks of arterial and venous thromboembolism (TE) in hospital patients and general public which has led to consideration of thrombosis prevention measures in earnest.

Wrangling over the small-business measure began in earnest after Senate Democrats, breaking a two-month partisan logjam, finally succeeded in winning an extension of unemployment insurance.

Failure to beat the bottom side Sunderland would get the alarm bells jangling in earnest but it is a measure of the champions' apparent indifference to their league form that this is a match Sunderland will go into with something approaching bullish confidence.

Mr. Weinstein, a small, earnest man, likes to take the measure of his students' willingness to change the way they look at Chinese food.