"We're moving forward in earnest to reach some kind of accommodation".
If Beijing publicly renounced the use of force against Taiwan, peaceful and mutually beneficial cross-strait relations could move forward in earnest.
"If I don't get some success somewhere whether it's critical or financial I won't be able to get in the game any more," he said, sitting forward, an earnest wrinkle contorting his brow.
WRI will move forward in earnest with its Global Food Loss and Waste Measurement Protocol.
"You don't seem to have understood the story at all," Gray admonished me, leaning forward with earnest eyes.
Sitting forward in an earnest fashion and pushing back his flop of brown hair, David Mitchell is explaining why the production company he has just formed with Robert Webb has gone into business with the BBC.
The MLB all-star game, set for next Tuesday in Cincinnati, was always the crown jewel, a chance to see stars that rarely swung through town, an event of enormous value that baseball fans looked forward to in earnest.
The way forward will require earnest mechanisms where people can see their voices in action.
And while you hope for the best for the earnest young forward, Manny Malhotra, you have to wonder when the label "prospect" changes to "suspect".
It's the sort of earnest, concept-forward track that's been out of fashion for some time.
