Sentence examples for represents a serious attempt from inspiring English sources

Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq represents a serious attempt to combine descriptive and astronomical geography.

Alex Magno, a political commentator and occasional speechwriter for the president, argues that her new persona represents a serious attempt to outflank her political rivals.

"Brooklynization," after all, represents a serious attempt at repudiation: of Manhattan, of course, whose nosebleed real estate prices pushed the creative class out to Brooklyn in the first place; but also of the logic of globalization, and its elevation of an international elite with no ostensible connection to either specific places or the making of physical things.

One may like "The Fountain of Youth," Orson Welles's unsold television anthology project, or dismiss it as a dated relic, but there is no doubt that it represents a serious attempt by Welles to create something new and different for the TV half-hour format.

This method is semiautomatic, requiring a guided training phase, yet flexible and represents a serious attempt at connecting low-level visual sensing with high-level reasoning using complex, dynamic visual features.

The OD banding calculated for the SHMI represents a serious attempt to overcome the limitations of the modelling approach to provide a valid estimate of uncertainty and thus appropriate identification of outliers.

But this does represent a serious attempt to tame the city's traffic problem.

Many, if not most CBNRM programmes, do not represent a serious attempt to devolve revenues to communities and therefore cannot be expected to work (Nelson 2010; Ribot 2003).

We conclude that spatial scale represents a serious mapping constraint when attempting to encompass large forest areas for ecosystem carbon accounting.

Maidana, 27, represents a serious risk to Khan.

But the launch represents a serious leap of faith.