Sentence examples for efforts to define why from inspiring English sources

One way to think about the spasms that have convulsed the conservative parts of the country this year is that they are inexact, overlapping efforts to define why ordinary people seem so angry, and to locate a moral authority for the right that might match what the left has found in race and economic inequality.

Why mitochondrial dysfunction occurs in the first place is unknown, but recent efforts to define signaling events associated with these changes have implicated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), Fos, and FoxO as possible effectors (18).

Those lawyers are sure to resist the company's efforts to define the problem narrowly.

Sometimes, the newspaper's efforts to define these forms seem strained.

Several problems with efforts to define life are discussed.

It's simply that emergent phenomena don't respond well to efforts to define them.

Minimizing efforts to define an initial set of policies.

There will be an effort to define it that way".

For others it becomes an effort to define what it means to be a European.

Defenders say the rules were a proper effort to define vague provisions with severe penalties.

The effort to define the way ahead in Afghanistan will also define Mr. Hagel's tenure.