conscious effort

collocation in English

meaningsofconsciousandeffort

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conscious
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒn.ʃəs/us
/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs/
to notice that a particular thing or person exists or ...
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effort
noun
uk
/ˈef.ət/us
/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofconsciousandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconscious effort

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Unlike their earlier appeals to science, though, this time around actuaries made aconsciouseffortto practice what the scientists seemed to be preaching.
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Thirty-two respondents spoke of making aconsciouseffortto keep busy in order to prevent despondency.
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If noconsciouseffortis exerted to maintain the words in working memory, then the activation of their representations decays.
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This format builds on the observation that representing occurrences of events is a fairly automatic cognitive process requiring littleconsciouseffort.
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The problem with this approach is that it can, withoutconsciouseffort, err on the side of biological optimism, especially with respect to extraterrestrial environments.
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With the passive learning policy, the central banks learn but make noconsciouseffortto influence the speed of learning.
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Most decision researchers, for example, can instantly recognize problems of syllogistic reasoning and, without muchconsciouseffort, determine whether the form is valid or not.
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Our use of "attempt" here and "seek" in the following sentence should not be understood as implyingconsciouseffort.
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We make aconsciouseffortto concentrate on the two- and threedimensional cases and with a few exceptions avoid discussions of the general d-dimensional case.
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Aconsciouseffortwould need to be made to impart some necessary vocabulary to the composers during the next trial.
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Here there is aconsciouseffortto replace a child lost in order to meet the desired number of surviving children.
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These results support the view that, when aconsciouseffortis made to hold words in short-term memory, lexical codes contribute to the maintenance process.
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In other cases, much of this goal is determined with littleconsciouseffortimmediately a work is begun.
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In the case of community forestry, mutual supervision seems to contribute significantly to the reduction in the protection costs, as it does not involve muchconsciouseffort.
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There were difficulties about tackling contraceptive users in the same way and aconsciouseffortwas made not to alienate any of the young people using these clinics.
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When aconsciouseffortis made to maintain the words in working memory, then the level of activation of their long-term representations remains relatively high during the retention interval.
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She therefore makes aconsciouseffortin her everyday life to overcome what she sees as the greatest stumbling block in her path towards spiritual attainment-her egotism and self-centredness.
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This inconsistency may reflect confusion about development, an (unconscious) exaggeration of history if current feelings are not clear-cut, or aconsciouseffortto mislead the clinician.
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