Sentence examples for ordinary effort from inspiring English sources

But how do you define "ordinary effort"?

In practice, "ordinary effort" describes, as Bill James wrote, what should have happened.

But the definition of "ordinary effort" surely has to be expanded at the élite level.

The scorer must believe "the fielder could have handled the ball with ordinary effort".

Holbrook said that his call was prompted by Kozma's showing "ordinary effort" and being in position to catch the ball.

"I was arguing or protesting that it was not an ordinary effort," Braves Manager Fredi Gonzalez told reporters after the game.

The game, as it turned out, matched the hype, despite ordinary efforts from Parker (7 points) and Okafor (8 points).

As a consequence of those ordinary efforts, his chase mark has been put in at 10lb lower than his hurdles rating but there's absolutely no reason why Lie Forrit can't be just as effective over fences.

Thus, in what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible as the "ordinary" efforts of a vast majority.

A couple of years later, at the mostly white high school he attended, in Ithaca, New York, he was usually the only black student in the courses he took, and that fact alone made his teachers and classmates treat him as exceptional: even his ordinary efforts won him a sort of astonished admiration.

A string of ordinary efforts does not result in the extraordinary: ordinary workouts will not result in becoming a weightlifting champion; years of ordinary driving won't culminate in our dominating the race track.