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Before the exam, he began to study in earnest.
He is an earnest young man.
He began working in earnest.
Fun became earnest. Earnest is now four years old.
Over the summer months, Tom began studying Esperanto in earnest.
Are you in jest or in earnest?
Are you in earnest in saying so?
Sooner or later, we'll have to tackle the problem in earnest.
They are earnest about their children's education.
He began courting her in earnest when he found out that she had another suitor.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Movie subtitles
But here, because of the Emperor's earnest request,..
Because of his EARNEST REQUEST! We decided to give you one more chance.
So, Magistrate, let's find the truth about my death in earnest.
We start in earnest tomorrow morning, Kemp.
You were earnest about that.
You mean, you were in earnest?
What would you say to our great humanitarian. that earnest disciple of brotherly love. the inventor of our new poison gas?
I've come to this decision after giving the matter my earnest consideration.
Unfortunately, Eve, in this real and earnest life we must face the situation and all its bearings.
I can't believe you're in earnest.
By God who raised me to this careful height. from that contented hap which I enjoyed. I never did incense his majesty against the duke of Clarence. but have been an earnest advocate to plead for him.
I think it very strange that a woman shall have been most earnest help of all.
I was in earnest with her as I am now with you.
I gather he was an earnest man with a meek personality.
The question of the succession has long been. the subject of my earnest consideration.
You're not in earnest?
If you lose your head now, you'll lose it in earnest later on.
If ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth?
I shall write to him. I shall tell him it is my earnest desire that you and the Marquis become. good friends.
I must tell you something in earnest, the Baron wouldn't wish any of this!
I warn you, he is in deadly earnest.
L-Life is real, life is earnest. If you're cold, turn up the furnace.
Because of his EARNEST REQUEST!
It's much too grim and earnest.
It's a very real and earnest society.
I can't believe you're in earnest. - No?
Let's say I did: I was in earnest with her as I am now with you.
And. and. in the end she died in earnest.
It is my earnest hope that the solar system may continue along this path of peace, this path that was laid by the signing of the non-aggression pact of 3975.
What will you do with't that you have been so earnest to have me filch it?
I've never said or done a thing in earnest.
The roof has long been in disrepair, and after the autumn rains, it started leaking in earnest.
And for an earnest of a greater honour, he bade me call thee Thane of Cawdor.
News and current affairs
LOS ANGELES - When the United States and its allies resume talks over Iran's nuclear program on November 7-8, the vexing task of crafting Iran's recent proposal into an enduring agreement will begin in earnest.
Gore's deeply earnest film plots the relentless, and potentially disastrous, warming of the earth during the industrial era.
The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health launched its Report on December 20 optimistic that the great battle against disease and poverty will now be joined in earnest.
The internecine rivalries that began in earnest last November between fighters from Zawiya and Warshefana, and among Tripoli's various factions, will be difficult to defuse, as the thowar (revolutionaries) have refused repeated calls by the NTC to disarm.
China's authorities did not embark on import liberalization in earnest until much later, during the second half of the 1980s and the 1990s.
EU financial integration began in earnest in the 1980's, and the European Commission and European Council made great strides in financial-sector reform.
When the crisis started in earnest in August 2007, the ECB reacted quickly and intervened as long as the inter-bank market needed support.
The process of identifying the Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to enter into force in 2015, has begun in earnest.
At a golden wedding anniversary one may wish that, now, everything should really start in earnest.
What is a paradise for political scientists is a nightmare for anyone trying to rule the country in earnest.
Without structural reforms to strengthen employment and growth, even the most earnest efforts to foster recovery will come to nothing both economically and politically.
Third, any further sanctions should be accompanied by an earnest offer of dialogue and engagement.
There the scourge began in earnest; there (as elsewhere in Africa) it exacts its highest toll.
Led by a group of technocrats surrounding the young King Mohammed VI, a reform process - including political liberalization - has begun in earnest, even if the results still seem modest.
And, while Europe has built institutions to underpin peace, Asia has yet to begin such a process in earnest.
Netanyahu's provocative policies and statements, which have undermined support for Israel among even its closest allies, would be supplanted by a willingness to negotiate in earnest and make genuine concessions.
One very senior government official of a northern European country did not even put down his fork when interrupted by an earnest dinner companion who pointed out that many Spaniards now eat out of garbage cans.
Of course, Putin will begin his new term with earnest words about renewal, development, democratization, and the scourge of corruption.
That is certainly how things looked, with high levels of structural unemployment and a below-trend capital stock, at the end of the 1930's, before mobilization and the European and Pacific wars began in earnest.
It is my earnest desire that the people in our neighborly countries and their leaders should feel free to visit each other whenever they wish to do so.
But important progress can be made by the time the UK's referendum is held - if, that is, EU leaders begin pursuing this goal in earnest now.
Some people even fear that the present war of words over Cyprus could lead to a shooting war in earnest between Greece and Turkey.
So the search for scapegoats proceeds, not in earnest and with energy, but as a reflex, the death throes of the old ways of doing things.