Sentence examples for uneven effort from inspiring English sources

It is a messy, uneven effort.

The result is "an eloquent, strangely quixotic, frustratingly uneven effort," Gary Rosen wrote in these pages in 2003.

"Colleges Show Uneven Effort to Enroll Poor" (front page, May 31) doesn't mention a sector of higher education that has a proud story to tell about educational access.

The Yankees won despite an uneven effort from Ivan Nova (six and a third innings, four runs) in the first game and received a solid effort from the slumping Phil Hughes (six innings, two runs) in the second.

It was apparent on the field that Moss's role was declining and that his future, at age 33 and with a history of uneven effort, was going to play out elsewhere.

Any attempt to transfer "Catch-22" off the page is a bold undertaking, and while Mr. Meineck's staging is imaginative and faithful in spirit to Heller's novel, it ultimately proves an uneven effort.

Compare their improved performances in the recent debates to their more uneven efforts in the earlier debates this season.

Suzdal managed to escape the worst of the Soviet Union's rapacious pursuit of progress — and of modern Russia's uneven efforts to make amends for it.

Still, revisiting the will and all the related court filings, which you can now examine here, furnishes a fascinating glimpse of Twain's life behind the comic mask and his uneven efforts to provide for his daughters after his death.

But the picture is uneven: her effort to drive down costs is too timid; she was responsible for the silly new protectionist oil regime; and the impression is that she is prepared to settle for growth of under 4%.That would hurt Brazil.

This was due to the high initial splitting rate of colonies (29 out of 33 informed colonies and all naïve colonies (n = 33) split – reunion of split colonies occasionally occurred within 24 hours), which resulted in uneven transport effort between both nests in informed colonies and even transport effort in naïve colonies (Figure 3A).