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Example sentences for "human effort"

  • Our existing poverty is purely a problem in the direction and distribution of human effort.

  • Its ultimate effect will not fall upon them, but will serve merely to alter the direction of human effort.

  • An inconceivable quantity of human effort is spent on advertising, mere shouting and display, as unproductive in the social sense as the beating of a drum.

  • It can only have been due to some change in the character of human effort--either in that of the effort of each separate manual labourer, or else in that of the men by whom the labour of others is directed.

  • If we like to take "labour" as a collective name for all forms of human effort, we can of course do so; but in that case we must find other differential names for the different forces of effort individually.

  • In effect, this preconception imputes to things a tendency to work out what the instructed common sense of the time accepts as the adequate or worthy end of human effort.

  • Science generated technology, which dramatically affects the outcome of human effort.

  • Rooted in the biological distinction between male and female, labor division increased the efficiency of human effort.

  • Since ideas come into being in the experience of language, their dissemination and validation, critical to the efficiency of human effort at any given scale, depends on the portability of the medium in which they are expressed.

  • The law of wages is but the general law of value, working itself out amid the special conditions accompanying the gratification of wants by human effort.

  • Historical diminishing returns occur when, in fact, human effort is less bountifully rewarded in a later period than in an earlier one.

  • But in some forms of human effort, social and individual interests clash.

  • If now we take into consideration that what is true of butchers is true of almost every dealer in the articles of food we consume, we shall appreciate how much waste of human effort there is in this business of distribution.

  • It fills the circumference of human knowledge and of human effort.

  • It makes man the sport of an infinite monster, and yet good people, men and women of ability, who have gained eminence in almost every department of human effort, stand by this creed as if it were filled with wisdom and goodness.

  • Men go through college studying for many years, and when graduated have not the slightest conception of how to make a living in any department of human effort.

  • If we and they can perpetuate the essentials of this practice at a large saving of human effort, or perpetually secure the final result in some more expeditious and less laborious way, most important progress will have been made.

  • The Incarnation doctrine is the glorification of human effort, and the sanctification of childhood and simplicity of life; but it is a pity to reduce it to a dogma.

  • It is only when this work is compared with the conditions which prevail under the tyranny of some of our misguided bricklayers' unions that the great waste of human effort which is going on will be realized.

  • This increase in the productivity of human effort is, of course, due to many causes, besides the increase in the personal dexterity of the man.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human effort" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anie other; distance between; farther away; human action; human activity; human authority; human behavior; human bein; human creature; human destiny; human effort; human energy; human industry; human interest; human kindness; human knowledge; human language; human mind; human passions; human power; human races; human slavery; human societies; similia similibus; single soul; submarine boat