Sentence examples for efforts to increase efficiency from inspiring English sources

The most recent quarter included charges of $78.5 million, or $1.11 a share, for a revamping announced in March and its recent efforts to increase efficiency.

We also endorse attempts, such as efforts to increase efficiency in agriculture, to find ecologically sound substitutes for fish as a nutritional source.

As efforts to increase efficiency at its troubled auto division appeared to take hold, the Fiat group today reported better-than-expected results in the second quarter for its global activities.

Lower reimbursements for endoscopic procedures and increasing demand for screening endoscopy over the past decade have spurred efforts to increase efficiency in the performance of endoscopic procedures.

Thinking in terms of product life cycles is one of the challenges facing manufacturers today: efforts to increase efficiency throughout the life cycle do not only lead to an extended responsibility of the concerned parties.

For years, Gov. Rick Perry's efforts to increase efficiency and productivity at public universities — largely by pressuring university system officials to carry out specific changes proposed by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative research group — were mostly conducted out of the public eye.

Jackson also contributed to a report on "efforts to increase efficiencies and maximize collection" by the municipal courts.

As Mr. Giuliani prepares to leave office, he is pressing other city agencies to adopt Compstat-type programs in an effort to increase efficiency and productivity.

Nortel Networks said yesterday that it was revamping its operations in an effort to increase efficiency at a time when sales are declining.

The watchword for West Campus is "transformative". Our approach to the economic downturn must be strategic: we will continue to support programs of high priority, while making every effort to increase efficiency and eliminate waste.

During the nineteen-seventies oil crisis, Brookes argued that devising ways to produce goods with less oil — an obvious response to higher prices — would merely accommodate the new prices, causing energy consumption to be higher than it would have been if no effort to increase efficiency had been made; only later did he discover that Jevons had anticipated him by more than a century.