Effort in sentence

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It takes a huge amount of time and effort; lots of people would call it distracting.

At the moment, these things are fringe research; they're not central to the human effort to face this problem or problems in general.

Life Magazine helped in this effort by announcing the introduction of throwaways that would liberate the housewife from the drudgery of doing dishes.

I want to make the point that what we're giving girls, I think, through this effort, is a kind of validation, a sense of being seen.

And I'm here to unveil our latest effort, and most successful effort so far, which is still very much a work in process.

After the outbreak of war, Sophie reluctantly worked for the national effort, and Hans had to take on army duties while attending medical school in Munich.

The first leaflet denounced Hitler and called for Germans to sabotage the war effort: “Adopt passive resistance… block the functioning of this atheistic war machine before it is too late, before the last city is a heap of rubble… before the last youth of our nation bleeds to death... Don’t forget that each people gets the government it deserves!”

And as an artist, I was thinking about our effort, our desire, our continual longing that we've had over the years to make meaning of the world around us through materials.

What takes a little more effort is how exactly you do so.

At every effort and every level, conservation must include the economies of the people who share the land with the wild animals.

It is also critical that local conservationists be part of every conservation effort, if we are to build trust and really embed conservation into communities.

From those things, and one other perhaps, I coined my own definition of success, which is: Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.

That's what really matters: if you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be.

There again, it's getting the players to get that self-satisfaction, in knowing that they'd made the effort to do the best of which they are capable.

Not the only one, but he was one that I used in that particular category, because I think he made the effort to become the best.

So, once we discovered that it was really possible that we could actually do this monitoring, we decided to move this from research, to really attempt to phase up to a global monitoring effort.

The team that was hunting for this IED is called an EOD team— Explosives Ordinance Disposal—and they're the pointy end of the spear in the American effort to suppress these roadside bombs.

Perhaps the best sign of how valuable they are to the war effort, is that the Iraqi insurgents put a $50,000 bounty on the head of a single EOD soldier.

Now, in idiot compassion, we go along with the story, we say, "You're right, that's so unfair," when a friend tells us that he didn't get the promotion he wanted, even though we know this has happened several times before because he doesn't really put in the effort, and he probably also steals office supplies.

And that it's worth the effort to go through a revision because there's nothing more important to the quality of our lives than the stories we tell ourselves about them.

This is not very gratifying after more than a century of devoted engineering effort.

We have to come and attack this problem with a focus, with an effort that actually says, we're going to go to zero before the world ends.

But this whole effort is generated, is driven, by IT as well because that is how we're gathering all this information, and linking it, and integrating it together.

Then out of nowhere, my boss comes to me and says, "Hey, we want you to save this clamshell for the company and lead the effort to reduce waste within McDonald's."

I was part of a collaborative scientific effort that spanned a dozen institutions across three continents that came together and solved this problem.

And then finally, it dawned on me, after all of the effort by me and all of the people who have helped me collect and organize and clean this trash, that I should keep it.

That's why we've made it our primary goal to spend a large sum of money on an advertising effort to help bring out and complicate the truth about coal.

So I tried stepping up the curb the way I'd always known how, front on, for days on end, with no success, until it became obvious that the time and effort I was investing into this endeavor was clearly disproportionate to the benefit of its outcome.

Sometimes called “witches” for their mysterious powers, the Bene Gesserit have operated as a shadow government for millennia in an effort to guide society towards enlightenment.

We have all come together in an effort to help 150,000 or more immigrants since that first day that we got started.

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