Sentence examples for substantive attempts from inspiring English sources

Of the more substantive attempts to link Greece's grandiose past to its humbled present, nearly all have focussed on a notorious incident from the Peloponnesian War — the ruinous, three-decade-long conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Of the more substantive attempts to link Greece's grandiose past to its humbled present, nearly all have focussed on a notorious incident from the Peloponnesian War the ruinous, three-decade-long conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Journalists should give more coverage to the candidates who make substantive, material attempts to grapple with the issues that their reporting revealed.

King George's attitude toward the colonies hardened, and the news may have contributed to his rejection of the Continental Congress' Olive Branch Petition, the last substantive political attempt at reconciliation.

In the same vein, when Russia began to use its domination of the European energy supply as a lever of political pressure, the chancellor's instinct was to offer no substantive backing to attempts within the European Union to set up a single community approach to confront monopoly suppliers.

Reviewer #3: I find this to be an interesting and substantive work that attempts to better understand the roles of climatic factors as well as other biotic factors in the persistence and transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU).

She will be pushing her attempts at substantive change right up against the same Republicans whose very existence cowed a president, in a Senate that now requires 60 votes to pass a greeting card.

Mr Kerry and his boss, Barack Obama, felt they needed something pretty substantive to ward off attempts by Congress to impose tough new sanctions on Iran, which would almost certainly scupper any further negotiations.

However, the military has consistently blocked attempts at substantive economic reform because this would require the privatization of its own assets: various commercial enterprises that may include up to one third of the Egyptian economy.

But a Buzzfeed report published late last year showed that despite a few attempts, nothing substantive has been done to fix the problem.

Mr Lwin says there has been no attempt at substantive political negotiations.