Sentence examples for irrational effort from inspiring English sources

Yet people acted as if they had a limited budget for fuel, as opposed to an overall budget constraint, and responded to a rise in gas prices with a seemingly irrational effort to hold down the size of that sub-budget.

This represents a bizarrely irrational effort to provide a rational basis for Prop 8.

It is time for America to exit this vicious cycle and disregard irrational voices intent on sabotaging efforts to reach an understanding.

An experimental psychologist is using a cardigan purported to have been worn by murderer Fred West to argue that scientists' efforts to combat "irrational" beliefs are ultimately futile.

It is not realistic to expect a telemedicine service linking village doctors to qualified doctors to curb irrational drug prescriptions without significant efforts at enforcing laws linking training and the legal permission to prescribe.

Such moments of surreal levity — like the incongruously festive throng of employees in banana-yellow underwear and cobalt-blue bathrobes — are more than welcome as we marvel at man's rational efforts to harness the irrational.

Partly because it is utterly irrational, and partly because it is an effort to bully and intimidate his political opponents, this is dangerous for democratic politics.

Many of the projects I did in my "official" development career required levels of effort and commitment that were irrational when the personal costs and benefits were tallied.

It was a simple and irrational musical impulse, which then became a conscious effort of creating music for people (me included) to listen to on a really cold Saturday afternoon, at home, through some big earphones.

And yet even if we avoid what Camus describes as such escapist efforts and continue to live without irrational appeals, the desire to do so is built into our consciousness and thus our humanity.

Efforts should be made to minimise irrational use of antibiotics and support interventions to restrict over-the-counter availability of antibiotics.