Sentence examples for serious efforts were made from inspiring English sources

The resurgence really began in the 1850s, however, when serious efforts were made to revive Catalan as a living language with its own press and theatre a movement known as the Renaixença ("Rebirth").

In the United Kingdom, after the attacks on the London Underground, in 2005, serious efforts were made in this direction and, just as important, the country maintained its live-and-let-live approach to Muslim practices, such as females wearing burkas.

As a result, serious efforts were made to utilize the gained knowledge for designing better vaccines and accompanying control measures.

It wasn't until years after Brown that serious efforts were made to desegregate schools, and New York resisted these attempts early and often.

In 1890, Congress had passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but it was not until the Theodore Roosevelt administration (1901 1909) that serious efforts were made to break up or control the trusts.

Although serious efforts were made to oppose Jim Crow laws in Nashville as early as 1905, it was not until 1958, with the formation of the Nashville Christian Leadership Council, that Nashville's African American community would lay the foundation for dismantling racial segregation.

But serious efforts are made to bridge divides, illuminate interfaces and fill gaps.

Intellectually serious efforts are made to pay for at least half of the cost of health care reform.

Until serious efforts are made to place better trained teachers in more classrooms, major problems will persist.

Hague said he was sympathetic to Ireland's plight and "acknowledged the very serious efforts" being made to address the country's economic crisis.

And only with the support of all or most of these six can serious efforts be made to win over China, Russia and France.