Sentence examples for serious effort is from inspiring English sources

They might be a signal that a serious effort is being made this time around.

Either, no serious effort is going to be made to address the deficit, or, in order to finance Lib Dem policy goals, Tory ambitions, most noticeably as regards defence, will have to bear the brunt of even beginning to try and make the sums add up.

Owing to the growing concerns about the relatively high global warming potential (GWP) of current refrigerants, a serious effort is in progress to find lower-GWP substitutes.

The advantage of Delphi is that a serious effort is invested in finding the common ground among the experts and in finding the reasons and arguments that cause differences in assessments.

"It makes you wonder whether it could keep on happening unless a serious effort is made to look into where these spills are coming from and how they can be stopped.

Just as liberals (pace Ronald Dworkin) sometimes have to choose between ideals (e.g., freedom and equality) that come into conflict with one another if a serious effort is made to realize any one of them fully, so communitarians may have to make some hard choices between valued forms of communal life.

"A pretty serious effort was made," Mr. Land said in an interview Thursday.

No serious effort was made by any side in the post-2005 cooling-off period to reconcile the north and south.

This was the first time a serious effort was made to tackle overcrowding in London and has made some good progress to date.

Despite a treaty between the countries, and the fact that he was wanted on murder charges, no serious effort was made to extradite him.

But the fact that such an encounter took place was taken as a sign that a serious effort was being made by the two sides to deal with the issues.