Sentence examples for inventive efforts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Employers, on the other hand, point out that innovation is notoriously expensive and difficult, particularly in those fields where complex modern technology requires the sustained inventive efforts of many people to develop new products.

The passing was slick, they were patient in possession and Hibs came close on a number of occasions in the early stages through Kevin Thomson with a sizzling shot, Cummings with a header and two inventive efforts from Stokes.

We need such inventive effort today.

The successful markets we have are a result of considerable inventive effort.

Their impressive comeback is the result of an inventive effort to trap and move the elusive birds with rocket-controlled nets.

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.