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Effort in sentence

4628 examples of Effort in a sentence

We manage to do this with little effort, inferring stable character traits from a single behavior, like a harsh word or a clumsy step.
It might've taken a lot of hard work and effort to dig the gold out of the mountain; you still can't patent it, it's still gold.
Professor, we really thank you for the extraordinary effort you made to share your questions with us today.
If this coordinated effort is strong enough, it'll wipe out the infection before you even notice it.
And look, I know, it takes effort and energy to actually pay attention to someone, but if you can't do that, you're not in a conversation.
Practicing in this way creates new neural pathways in the interpreter's brain, and the constant effort of reformulation gradually becomes second nature.
Now, in one of the presentations yesterday, the jitney thing, there is an effort to use regulations to slow this down.
They enlisted her in this effort to put a tax on solar panels and regulations.
And what I think we need to do as a community, is really try and make an effort to imagine how we can create this new reality in a way that extends the human experience, instead of gamifying our reality or cluttering it with digital information.
We know this because we can already see the results from some of our early projects, like the rescue effort of Healthcare.gov, when that went off the rails.
And since then, there's been a focused effort underway to discover and catalog these objects.
I am lucky enough to be part of this effort.
However, in the last 40 years, a lot of money, research and effort have gone towards finding new, powerful drugs to treat pancreatic cancer, but nothing has been done in changing the way we deliver them to the patient.
So parents choose specific years to give birth to babies, because they believe the team effort by the right combination of animals can give prosperity to families.
We have now deployed 30 different technologists in 18 different countries, and we have been able to connect millions of people in an effort to continue to learn what this particular segment of the market needs and demands.
After that moment of inspiration, there came a very long time of effort developing a prototype.
But we do know that journalism, activism and public debate are being silenced in the effort to stamp out extremist speech.
Climbing with a rope is a largely physical effort.
The physical effort is largely the same.
For 18 months in the Intifada, women were the ones calling the shots behind the scenes: Palestinian women from all walks of life in charge of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people in a concerted effort to withdraw consent from the occupation.
They're a little old before their time, wishing the grown-ups in their lives had said, "What you've done is enough, this effort you've put forth in childhood is enough."
It found that professional success in life, which is what we want for our kids, that professional success in life comes from having done chores as a kid, and the earlier you started, the better, that a roll-up-your-sleeves- and-pitch-in mindset, a mindset that says, there's some unpleasant work, someone's got to do it, it might as well be me, a mindset that says, I will contribute my effort to the betterment of the whole, that that's what gets you ahead in the workplace.
Imagine if we had, across the country right now, in local places but nationwide, a concerted effort to revive a face-to-face set of ways to engage and electioneer: outdoor shows in which candidates and their causes are mocked and praised in broad satirical style; soapbox speeches by citizens; public debates held inside pubs; streets filled with political art and handmade posters and murals; battle of the band concerts in which competing performers rep their candidates.
If we know that we're going to get extra bang for the buck from providing clean water, then I think that we can say, let's push the effort into that aspect of the control, so that we can actually solve the problem, even though, if you just look at the frequency of infection, you would suggest that you can't solve the problem well enough just by cleaning up water supply.
Now, I don't know exactly where it's going, but I've got a bit of effort involved in this thing.
Make an effort to actually meet somebody.
Whether here in New York or in Houston or Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and Paris, cities big and small all over the world are reclaiming and reinventing this infrastructure for themselves, including the mother of all catalyst infrastructure projects, the Los Angeles River, the revitalization effort for which similarly started as a grassroots movement, has developed into a cultural momentum, and is now in the early stages of being transformed into some kind of life-affirming infrastructure again, this one with trails and parks and fishing and boating and community revitalization, and of course, water quality and flood control.
That means no matter how much time or money or effort we put into it, it will never lead to a cure.
And Johnson and Lakoff talk about everything that collaborating on a work of art entails: effort, compromise, patience, shared goals.
This is a collective and altruistic effort to stop the spread in its tracks and to inform anyone not infected how to protect or inoculate themselves.
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