serious effort

"That was a real concerted and serious effort," the Jewish Democrat said in a Friday interview.

The White House made a serious effort to address real concerns about religious liberty.

He called the Democratic deadline bills “the most serious effort to legislate the defeat of America in a generation.”

Rather it is a serious effort to understand the appeals of the three leading Democrats in America, and how voters respond to them.

In the process, perhaps the most serious effort to date to unify the Tea Party movement appears to be in peril.

Indeed this first drawing is largely a pointing out or noting down of features without any serious effort to draw them.

I believe we might have weathered them had we really made a serious effort to do so, but there was no need.

The proprietors of the Carolinas did not make serious effort towards adding to the number of the colonists until 1667.

So it was, however; and once in her neighborhood he made another serious effort to get her to talk to him.

Any other education would have required a serious effort, but no one took Harvard College seriously.