serious effort

collocation in English

meanings of seriousand effort

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serious
adjective
uk /ˈsɪə.ri.əs/ us /ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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effort
noun
uk /ˈef.ət/ us /ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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Examples of serious effort

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This demands a very seriouseffort from the reader, philosopher and archaeologist alike.
Any seriouseffort to understand state constitutions, and in particular the intent of their authors, must begin with the journals of the conventions.
Transaction cost economics does not exhaust the issues but it makes a seriouseffort to nail down those features and develop a predictive theory.
Neither side, after all, made any seriouseffort to appeal to them.
The seriouseffort a person makes toward knowing and controlling his/her inner dimension is viewed as a holy struggle, jihad.
Each of the eight papers in the volume makes a seriouseffort to confront this question, usually through innovative methodology.
A seriouseffort has been invested in establishing connections between a graph's spectral characteristics and its other parameters.
Several countries have made a seriouseffort to determine the size of the problem.
Secondly, there has been some seriouseffort in introducing transparency and equity into the system by linking benefits to contributions.
It will take a long time and seriouseffort to explore these implications, but it will be interesting to mention at least some of them here.
Andrews et al. acknowledge that the definition of a trait is not straightforward, but they make no seriouseffort to grapple with the difficulty.
The editors have succeeded in getting some good chapters into the book, but they seem to have put no seriouseffort into making the book a coherent whole.
Their paper is a seriouseffort to explore the implications of a small set of ideas, rather than to prepare a synoptic view of the evolution of human mating.
It is understandable that firms face stringent environmental requirements in regions where the regulations are strict and the government authorities put seriouseffort into implementing these regulations.
For that reason we must make a seriouseffort to introduce inter alia much-needed institutional reforms.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Seriouseffort should ensure speedier processing, and enable practical difficulties to be resolved more effectively.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We believe priority should be given to a strong and seriouseffort in terms of interinstitutional cooperation.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I think that the time has come when we ought to make a seriouseffort to alter it.
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That is why, unlike our predecessors, we shall make a seriouseffort to find an answer.
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A much more seriouseffort should be made to bring these houses into a reasonable state to meet modern requirements.
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