Diplomacy is the art of not going to war, and as for most endeavours aimed at stopping something else from happening, its failures are more noticeable than its successes.
This is epitomised by projects including the German Mouse Clinic, the European Mouse Disease Clinic EUMODICC) and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium IMPCC) (Fuchs et al., 2011; Gates et al., 2011), which are examples of large international endeavours aimed at high-throughput phenotyping of mouse mutants.
This is collective grassroots endeavour aimed at reasserting isolation, and it's the only kind, this book leaves you thinking, that ever really succeeds.
Indeed, this very aspect may in fact represent the greatest legacy of current endeavour aimed at progressing natural orifice intervention as the biological insights so gleaned may then be used to help hone standard operations further towards perfection.
Teacher education is an endeavour aimed at future.
The transport of livestock can have major implications for their welfare, and there is strong public interest and scientific endeavour aimed at ensuring that the welfare of transported animals is optimal.
An independent thinker, he challenged established opinions in virtually every field of human endeavour, often aiming his criticism at Poland and its intellectual elite.
Mr Abbas said the endeavour was: "aimed at trying to breathe new life into the negotiations".
The Human Brain Project (HBP) for example is a massive endeavour that aims to accelerate our understanding of the human brain, and develop new brain-like technologies.
It would be a definite weakness if the purpose had been to compare the different countries, but this was not the case: Eurolight's endeavour was aimed at estimating the impact of headache in Europe and, from that point of view, the mix of methods was not undesirable.
