Sentence examples for efforts to devise a from inspiring English sources

Efforts to devise a safe and effective vaccine continue but have yet to bear fruit.

These bits and pieces of history defy efforts to devise a satisfactory place for them.

Unlike some of the more complicated efforts to devise a theory of everything, this one should either succeed relatively rapidly or fail spectacularly.

Recently, G.M. has stepped up its efforts to devise a competitive cost structure that both the companies and the union can live with for the next four years.

Emeka Mba, the government regulator, told me that he saw Afolayan's efforts to devise a new distribution system as an inspirational experiment.

But that notion was slowly demolished by some brilliant men and women who, in their efforts to devise a cure, were building the rudiments of modern economics.

Although methods for gene transfer into the host cells are currently standarized in several cell types, the transfection efficiency remains unsatisfactory in many cases and efforts to devise an optimal construct that can induce constant expression have not been very promising.

After the 2010 Hameen fire, Gap spent about two years talking with international NGOs and trade unions in an effort to devise a cooperative approach to worker safety.

"The initiatives we approved are the product of a significant effort to devise a sophisticated, yet workable and effective way to protect our markets from excessive volatility," Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the S.E.C, said in a statement.

Back in the 1980s, after all, health experts at Heritage made a good-faith effort to devise a plan for universal health coverage — and what they came up with was the system now known as Obamacare.

A similar effort to devise a "continental narrative" integrating the histories of the three Nafta partners, Canada, Mexico and the United States, has been stalled for more than a decade, and looks most likely never to come to pass.