Sentence examples for give earnest from inspiring English sources

If they find there is danger of serious future loss, they would give earnest and fair-minded consideration to the question whether the stockholders' interests might not best be served by sale or liquidation.

We conduct research and give earnest papers in a field called Asian American Studies, and the tiger oils Chua and Yang have been peddling to the American public of late are not new or mysterious to us.

Sure enough, yesterday they revealed that they are giving earnest consideration to paying £75,000 to supplement him for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

He showed up on TV on Saturday afternoons in his red-white-and-blue Elvis suits, giving earnest stay-in-school speeches.

Mr. Jackson and Ms. Graynor are best at giving earnest voice (and body) to this logic, though Mr. Winkler is pretty amusing when Chuck accepts an award saying, "You've opened your hearts and your legs to me".

By the end of a convivial hour, we'd gone a long way towards solving the Australian team's selection dilemmas and given earnest consideration to the relative merits of Bootleg's Raging Bull, Wils Pils and Sou'West Wheat.

Mr. Potucek gave earnest but amusing background stories on everything from the once-frescoed Gothic hallways, to the Verona Candelabra (a gift from Agnes that was shipped from Italy in pieces to be reassembled on arrival at Klosterneuburg), to the famous Verdun Altar: a collection of 51 miniature enamel and gold biblical scenes created by Nicolaus of Verdun in 1181.

Mind you, his compatriot José Mourinho was not averse to giving earnest interviewers the bum's rush, so maybe the biting put-down is yet another area in which our belief that we lead the world is little more than a sad delusion.

The conversation mostly consisted of Vovan and his "translator" speaking Russian, and then relaying brief, earnest-sounding questions about a possible future meeting to John, who gave earnest replies.

A naïve fresher will give an earnest response about "fair trials" and "equal justice".

The lesson I learned was not to give an earnest speech about reforming the structure of the student government, but instead, to give a speech that addressed things students cared about, with some humor.