Sentence examples for effort consumed from inspiring English sources

And some experts like Peter de Jager, a Canadian consultant, contend that even though the repair effort consumed $200 billion or more, the global total of Year 2000-related date malfunctions has already topped a million.

The effort consumed so much time that she was fired from her job and had to take a temporary position.

Brought to life in early December and remaining in situ till March, Kenny Scharf's five-day effort consumed 200 cans of donated spray paint to render intersecting, color-charged clownish figures in psychedelic hues, all rendered in the artist's familiar free-hand, horror vaccui style.

That effort consumes resources, but it produces no wealth.

In Palestine, Mr Clinton did his utmost to bring peace, only to see his efforts consumed by the violence of the intifada.On most of these issues, America now has little choice but to take up the fight.

Stress likely triggered increased motivation and the recruitment of additional cognitive resources that minimize its aversive effects on task performance (effectiveness), but these compensatory efforts consumed resources that caused a loss of cognitive efficiency (ratio between performance effectiveness and mental effort).

Still, the nation's economy has grown faster than the level of military spending, and even the current colossal Pentagon budgets for regular operations and the war efforts consume a smaller portion of gross domestic product than in previous conflicts.

Since abatement efforts consume a large portion of India's GDP, MoEF faces an uphill battle as it tries to fulfill its mandate of reducing industrial pollution [ 19].

Additionally, SIGTARP put forth an enormous effort to assist homeowners who were the victims of predatory lending practices, an effort that consumed a considerable amount of its available bandwidth and left Barofsky feeling like his team was stuck in a futile game of "Whack-A-Mole".

It felt, they told me, like a "referendum" on an effort that consumed them for years.

The round-the-clock effort has consumed an alphabet soup of federal regulators and criminal investigators, with lawyers sleeping at open desks and each agency commandeering a different conference room at the firm's offices.