serious effort

This is not a matter of silly girls who supposedly have "too much" sex, but a serious effort to seize control of the most intimate parts of people's lives.

A CNN report by journalist Joan Biskupic revealed that Roberts “made no serious effort to entice the three liberal justices for even a modicum of the cross-ideological agreement that distinguished such presidential-powers cases in the past.”

It seems highly unlikely that anyone can, or will make a serious effort to, route around her.

All the while, an unsuspecting Rep. Rose continued on with a speech — a serious effort decrying last week’s conviction of former President Donald Trump in a New York courtroom.

It would take a serious effort — but in what’s become increasingly clear over the last two months, the Lakers are looking like a serious team.