Sentence examples for rational efforts from inspiring English sources

Yet however dangerous the drugs may be, the seemingly rational efforts to control them are actually part of the problem.

Consumers' and producers' best rational efforts are often confounded and so they fall back on a range of other strategies: imitation, trial and error, prejudice, guesswork.

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.

They resist rational efforts to slow down and halt climate change and to prepare for its consequences.

The process, whereby rational efforts are made by the jurist to arrive at an appropriate ruling, when applied is called ijtihad (literally meaning "exerting oneself").

Weber began his studies of the subject in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he argued that the redefinition of the connection between work and piety in Protestantism and especially in ascetic Protestant denominations, particularly Calvinism, shifted human effort towards rational efforts aimed at achieving economic gain.

The challenge today is to make every rational effort toward preventing future actions of destruction.

There's no point to letting indignation, or even just personal preference, override the rational effort to forecast the Academy's likely misjudgments.

Overcoming the intuitive cause-effect attitude and recognising that the world around us is much less predictable than we would like it to be, requires a rational effort that is not easy at all.

Because they would view the war as a rational effort the way the Pentagon did: this was a ledger sheet.

Most horse owners, in an effort to appear rational, try to refrain from talking about how deeply they love their animals or from telling cute stories about them.