Sentence examples for works an effort from inspiring English sources

In the 1980s, after some years in which the chief prizes were thought to have gone too often to obscure minority works, an effort was made to edge the jurors towards giving the Palme d'Or to "the best feature-length film" and the slightly lesser Grand Prix Spécial du Jury to "the film that shows the most originality and spirit of research".

I'm still doing things like working, making an effort to go to my shifts even when I'm unwell.

Mr. Levesque, 56, puts troubled young people to work in an effort to use cars "to save lives".

Though they may not be wound and working — such an effort would be immense — there is still a clamor in their exoticism and bounty.

Hester was working on an effort called "accelerated computing" while at AMD.

And he's hoping to put those skills to work in an effort to get off government assistance.

A general and accepted premise is that motivated health workers work with an effort to provide the best possible health services under the prevailing resource situation.

People set various types of goals to satisfy needs and wants and work in an effort to achieve them.

On Thursday, efforts were still under way to contact employees who were not at work, an effort hampered by still-hobbled telecommunications in parts of the country, a spokeswoman said.

What she saw in their work — "an effort to discover what pattern of existence is most conducive to honesty and self-knowledge, the prime requisites for living a significant life" — she emulated in her own life.

In this work, an effort has been made to evaluate the performance of a designed 5-m length PTSC model.