Sentence examples for efforts at correction from inspiring English sources

Although he confessed these failings, his best efforts at correction and reconciliation never extirpated them.

Variation can occur in several ways: through mechanical damage or accidental omission; through misunderstanding due to changes in fashions of writing; through ignorance of language or subject matter; through inattention or stupidity; and through deliberate efforts at correction.

Spectacle borne factors including broken lenses, scratch lenses, lenses' falling off and broken frame can frustrate global efforts at adequate correction of refractive errors.

The analytic model that adjusted for fluoride in drinking water therefore represents our best effort at post hoc correction of this imbalance between community groups.

And the N.F.L. is adept at correction.

In those scenarios, attempts at correction can indeed be tricky.

He shouted obscenities at correction officers and their superiors.

Correction: May 25 , 2001 Friday An article on Wednesday about efforts at the United Nations to block the new British-American proposal on regulating trade with Iraq referred incorrectly to the nomination of John Negroponte as American ambassador to the organization.

She noted that he had begun to inquire of corrections officers about whether some of the incidents, including apparent seizures and efforts at self-harm, had been recorded in prison reports.

Each of these diverse efforts at articulation also involves testing proposed articulations against the experience that we seek to articulate, and an intelligent correction process in response to error.

Some efforts at networking can backfire.