Sentence examples for simple efforts from inspiring English sources

But since New York City hospitals cracked down in 2005, they have dropped sharply, partly because of simple efforts to take seemingly obvious precautions.

"All our major projects in our core business — upstream, midstream and downstream — will continue with very simple efforts to meet demand both in Russia and in our export markets," Mr. Medvedev said.

The term is used to describe a whole range of actions, not all considered political by the person involved: simple efforts to speak openly about periods, radical affronts to negative attitudes and campaigns for more environmentally friendly sanitary products.

"Simple efforts in dredging the canals that exist would reduce the incidents of flooding by 40 percent," said Stefan G. Koeberle, country director for Indonesia at the World Bank.

"That is the real issue: The study has not been done to show whether this can be prevented by simple efforts".

Although the roller compaction process appears simple, efforts to quantitatively model the process have proven challenging because of complex material behavior in the feeding and compaction zones.

What follows is a sendup of the kind of "serious" TV revered by awards judges -- hospital-bed death scenes, brooding soliloquies and simple-minded efforts to "address" such social issues as gun control and illiteracy -- with the actors zestily hamming it up.

Not a simple effort, but difficult and all-important.

It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort.

She finds this lightness, this relinquishing of control, difficult to achieve, especially since it cannot be accomplished by simple effort.

In state capitols, the debates have been reframed in the dry language of good government — a simple effort to clear the air, supporters say, for confused voters.