Sentence examples for substantive effort from inspiring English sources

Some intelligence officials said Brennan has made little substantive effort to shift more responsibility to the military.

As with any paper submitted for an HLS grade, the paper should be a substantive effort involving analysis, synthesis, and research.

Even so, the talks have been held on several different occasions and appear to represent the most substantive effort to date to negotiate an end to the nine-year-old war, which began with an American-led campaign to overthrow the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks.

The formal filing of nearly 80 pages by two American advocacy groups, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, was the most substantive effort yet to hold the pope and the Vatican accountable in an international court for sexual abuse by priests.

On Vanity Fair's site, Julian Sancton makes a more substantive effort, wondering: "Is 'Funny People' Judd Apatow's 'Annie Hall'?" He cites several parallels between the two movies, and suggests that both directors were empowered by their respective studios to turn more serious as a result of the commercial success of their comedies.

Critically exploring notions of national imagination and blamelessness, the politics of victimhood and the tension between traditions of sacrifice and the fear of betrayal, this book is the first substantive effort to concentrate on the opponents of truth recovery rather than its advocates.

If the international community fails to take substantive efforts to harmonize national, regional and international policies, there will be nothing left for future generations to fight for.

"If you really want to make change, you've got to make substantive efforts -- you can't just do a gesture," he said.

This is just fine; the green space has become saturated with undifferentiated initiatives and misleading messaging that can undermine the many credible, substantive efforts out there.

The fervor in Chongqing has not been accompanied by substantive efforts to shift away from capitalism and back toward collective ownership of the economy, but it has prompted wary watchfulness by multinationals.

The review is one of the most substantive efforts associated with Harrington, a Washington outsider and longtime associate of Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who co-founded PayPal and donated heavily to Trump's presidential campaign.