Sentence examples for a big effort was made from inspiring English sources

With The Dog a big effort was made to get participation from John Wojtowicz's former friends, lovers and family members.

"There is a big effort being made to overcome it, and I believe a compromise will be reached," Mr. Herzog said.

With regard to the families of children who habitually miss class, and "who do not have a culture of regular school attendance", a bigger effort is made in terms of following up on their situation, Dulcich explained.

"He needed to build some allies for this effort, because, clearly, there was no big effort being made by the White House or the State Department," said a senior Pentagon official.

So big efforts were made, costs of engines were dramatically reduced, testing was stopped, there were aerodynamic restrictions, transmission costs were controlled.

A big effort is being made by the scientific community to increase the knowledge regarding the seismic performance of these types of structures and to improve the numerical modelling capabilities to predict their expected behaviour accurately.

Given the limited effect of chemotherapy, a big effort is being made to find new treatment options.

In the biggest, most successful Transition groups, every effort is made to avoid being worthy.

Discord among longstanding allies is unsettling; big efforts are being made to dispel it.

But big efforts are being made to change that attitude, with delegations of executives flown over by the planeload.

Any company that leaves these out of its organizational change effort is making a big mistake.