Sentence examples for inventive effort from inspiring English sources

Theirs was a inventive effort, involving the imposition of heretofore unknown and unwritten park curfews and exceedingly energetic conversations between aides to the governor and Mayor Gerald D. Jennings of Albany, whose resolve crumbled as a confrontation between the police and demonstrators loomed 12 days ago.

In his doomed but endlessly inventive effort to grovel his way back to political favor by taking positions way to the left of his own party, the senator came out for "across the board" affirmative action and pledged to proclaim the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation some kind of quasi-Kwanzaa holiday.

Certainly, patent law can reward inventive effort, but not always.

These next three poems are examples where insufficient effort has not only involved lack of inventive effort.

Despite the inventive efforts of Tony Walton, the director, and a talented cast, along with lovely costumes by Whitney Anne Adams and a clever set by Heather Wolensky, these plays don't have the immediacy that fans of "Downton Abbey" might expect.

One of the most inventive efforts is in Ohio, where the Legislature is set to approve a bill that would allow drilling for oil and gas in the shale beneath some state parks.

Rather, it was the culmination of many inventive efforts that collectively moved toward supporting the breasts from the shoulders above rather from the waist below, as in a corset -- the main type of foundation garment in the West until the 20th century.

Many scholars argue that workforce unionization leads to a reduction in R&D investment because unions appropriate a share of the returns to successful inventive efforts.

Patents or citation-weighted patent counts have been used as retrospective measures of technological opportunities (Jaffe, 1986, 1988; Trajtenberg, 1990) although patents are themselves output, not input, of inventive efforts.

The small show of models and drawings at Senior & Shopmaker gives some background on Mr. Wines's inventive and admirable effort to integrate form, function and environment.

Operators in developing countries have been inventive in their efforts to reach rural customers.