Sentence examples for exercise an effort from inspiring English sources
"exercise an effort" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to make an attempt or put forth exertion towards achieving a goal or completing a task. Example: In order to improve her fitness, she decided to exercise an effort and go to the gym three times a week.
The subjects had had to cycle at 70 percent of their so-called VO2 max, the maximum amount of oxygen a person's body can take in during exercise — an effort that made them breathe too heavily to carry on a conversation.
As part of this exercise, an effort is made to relate the magnitudes of the indices to the frequency response errors induced by two proportional damping approximations often found in the literature.
The exercise is an effort to determine what it can sell to raise money for recent acquisitions and future purchases.
The attacks and subsequent American air strikes in Afghanistan have turned the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum from a good-will exercise into an effort by the United States to strengthen its anti-terrorism coalition in Asia.
Tells how the President's recent trip to Eastern Europe was both a public-realtions exercise and an effort to encourage the move toward independence in the region, and also to offset Mikhail Gorbachev's international popularity.
Floyd said he had been doing yoga and pilates exercises in an effort to be less bulky.
The CAS said Campbell-Brown placed the unsealed container on the floor while she went to get water and do exercises in an effort to produce more urine.
And "X-Men" is fun when the mutants, assembled by their leader (James McAvoy), undergo training exercises in an effort to control their extraordinary powers: digital technology amplifies their mistakes and their misjudgments into sloppy, destructive sprees.
In this paper, high fidelity finite element models are developed and exercised in an effort to advance understanding of the seismic behavior of steel stairs under pseudo-static displacement loading indicative of earthquake-induced building movements.
"Those who engage in semantic gymnastics or elaborate re-structuring exercises in an effort to avoid having a coin be a security are squarely in the crosshairs of our enforcement provision".
But during his trip, Mr Kerry has stressed that the US has tried to tone down its own statements, and cancelled some military exercises in an effort to defuse tension.
