Sentence examples for an effort to affect from inspiring English sources
It is against U.S. law for non-Americans to make expenditures or disbursements in an effort to affect the outcome of a U.S. election.
Is a Kurd who sets off a bomb in Washington in an effort to affect our alliance with Turkey — knowing and perhaps caring nothing about our freedom — not a terrorist?
This month the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, and the Department of Homeland Security accused Russia of hacking the Democratic National Committee, apparently in an effort to affect the presidential election.
Less frequently, a committed activist may nonetheless cooperate with authorities as a form of self-protection, or in an effort to affect the knowledge and behavior of control agents.
At best, a remand for consideration of such factors will require the District Court to engage in speculation; it may actually invite the parties to adjust their conduct in an effort to affect the result of this litigation (perhaps by opting to drop cable programs rather than seeking to increase total channel capacity).
Over the summer, Anonymous published a list of Twitter accounts being used by the group, while flooding others with unrelated images in an effort to affect search engine results.
These large initial differences suggest a prior effort to affect the situation, creating a more complex intervention than assumed by the Waddington review.
The difference here is you are making a very conscious effort to affect a change inside yourself, a change that will give you more freedom and inner peace -- qualities we experience when we are in acceptance.
He said he feared the article would make the counsel's office look as if it was engaged in a "ham-handed" effort to affect the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton, which was under way.
Religion might simply be overlaying a thinly guided effort to affect the policy making of another country.
"Senators in both parties are trying to use the farm bill to go after EPA regulations and permits as a potential last-ditch effort to affect agency policy before the election.
