Sentence examples for serious effort in from inspiring English sources

But the program's chief virtue is that it makes a smart, serious effort in that direction.

Obama often discussed inequality during the 2008 campaign, and his health-care plan represented the most serious effort in a generation to reverse it.

Iran is believed to have made a serious effort in the early nineteen-nineties to buy specialized materials for nuclear weapons from a factory in newly independent Kazakhstan.

ISTANBUL — Leaders of Greek and Turkish Cyprus agreed Friday to restart talks on uniting the island, the first serious effort in two years to erase the 1974 division.

Although aerial defoliation of coca has been used across Colombia for 10 years, government officials here say this is the first serious effort in this isolated region.

Both sides agreed last month to restart talks on uniting the island, the first serious effort in two years to erase the 1974 division.

Mr Roberts can find only one country that has made "serious efforts" in this direction: Cuba, hardly a comforting example.

Even though the company has made serious efforts in coming up with initiatives for the iPad and similar mobile devices, subscription revenue continues to be soft.

"The use of chlorine by Da'esh [Isis], and its recruitment of highly trained professionals, including from the West, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development".

"The use of chlorine by Daesh, and its recruitment of highly technically trained professionals, including from the west, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development," she said in Perth, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

While the Democrats specifically aimed at only five Republican seats in 1999, winning all of them and spending about $100,000 in the process, this year they are making serious efforts in all 19 districts.