Sentence examples for almost every effort from inspiring English sources

How, MacFarquhar wants to know, have Arab tyrants and dictatorial Iranian ayatollahs succeeded at smothering almost every effort at reform?

"John Boehner fought hard, drove a hard bargain, but liberals in the Senate and this administration resisted almost every effort to pass meaningful budget cuts".

Mr. Duncan lauded those colleges, universities and state programs that cut tuition — few enough that he was able to cite almost every effort — and those with programs increasing educational attainment, while lowering costs.

As the bill took shape during the all-day committee session, Republicans firmly rejected almost every effort by Democrats to steer the department away from the structure proposed by President Bush.

But almost every effort to improve access to latrines, sewers, and safe drinking water in the past century has failed.

Stevenson opposed almost every effort to expand blacks' rights beyond the minimums assured by federal amendments and legislation.

Given the Republicans credit for checkmating almost every Obama effort to reduce inequality and increase wages, including their intransigence on raising the federal minimum wage.

Despite a lofty reputation and purported commitment to universal coverage, AMA has fought almost every major effort at health care reform of the past 70 years.

A wedding is, in almost every way, an effort to forestall improvisation.

This is, finally, an ecumenical show in which Barbara Gladstone saw to it that almost every kind of effort found a place.

But evidence had been mounting for some time that the state's tests, which have formed the basis of almost every school reform effort of the past decade, had serious flaws.