Sentence examples for rudimentary efforts from inspiring English sources

Rudimentary efforts by locals to dig into the soft mud with shovels were quickly abandoned.

Rudimentary efforts by neighbours to dig into the soft mud with shovels were quickly abandoned as fruitless.

But a major barrier looms to basic fairness and even rudimentary efforts to honor the bonds of mutual support that thousands of same-sex partners have sworn to each other and their families.

Instead, the tyro candidate, who said at the beginning that, notwithstanding rumors to the contrary, he was not in a position to self-fund his campaign, has dug deep into his personal funds to fuel at least a rudimentary media effort in this big, diffuse, and relatively indifferent state.

It was a rudimentary snow-making effort, but it was revolutionary and helped paved the way for the sophisticated operations that have made hundreds of ski areas in the Northeast economically viable today.

Over a career in elected public office lasting more than 46 years, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has seen campaigns from the rudimentary, family-run effort that first launched him unexpectedly to the U.S. Senate as a 29-year-old to the sophisticated, data-driven juggernaut that helped elect him and Barack Obama twice to the nation's highest offices.

It's not the derivative scares and rudimentary effects that keep this low-budget effort percolating but the improvisational energy of Mr. Santos and Mr. Villarreal, whose ease, chemistry and humor never flag.

Environmentalists characterized the remediation efforts as "rudimentary". By 2007, the oil companies had removed a total of nine million gallons of oil.

In many countries where public health infrastructure is rudimentary, deteriorating, or nonexistent, efforts to improve the ability to conduct electronic disease surveillance include more robust data collection methods and enhanced analysis capability (6, 7 ).

It was a rudimentary and ultimately vain effort to save their town.

But assessing lost sales is well worth the effort; even rudimentary estimates can be useful.