Sentence examples for essentially efforts from inspiring English sources

In 1749 and 1764 he issued decrees limiting the obligations of the peasant to his lord, and in 1748 he ordered officers not to treat their men "like serfs"; but these were essentially efforts to prevent the plight of the peasant from becoming so desperate that he would be driven into flight and thus jeopardize the supply of recruits.

These claims are essentially efforts to recapture the funds that were spent without the consent of the spouse who did not know that community property moneys were being expended.

Efforts to map the sites of the brain's various functions and its interconnections are all very well, but without exploring such fundamental questions, can we expect that these essentially descriptive efforts will yield much useful insight?

In resisting this requirement, known as "new source review," or N.S.R., plant operators have over the years tried to define as "routine maintenance" projects that were essentially rebuilding efforts.

But they have split into quarrelsome factions in his absence and American Muslims have essentially ignored efforts by the cleric's supporters around the country to protest his prison conditions.

The film also illuminates the essentially heroic efforts, ranging from organization and negotiation to active resistance, that led to the survival of at least some of Europe's Jews.

Someday that may change, but it would take a very broad social movement, like toward a basic income and other substantial changes that recognize the contribution of all the essentially volunteer efforts (including involved parenting) that it takes to make a healthy society.

There have been essentially no efforts to recruit more students into the mathematical biology major.

Essentially, although efforts are under way to develop procedures for effective isolation of structures for RNA extraction (even particular cell types within complex tissue) [ 21- 25], there is little experimental support for composite structure extractions actually being difficult to interpret or prone to error.

Google's promotion of Android is, essentially, an effort to control its destiny in the mobile world.

The Republicans will also offer a motion to "recommit" the Democrats' bill for changes -- essentially an effort to block a vote on the bill.