Sentence examples for an effort to count from inspiring English sources

Some in the field have cited 5,000, but an effort to count schools turned up about half that.

"The good news is that there was an election and there was an effort to count the votes," says Chidi Odinkalu, a Nigerian human-rights campaigner who observed the poll.

Once every decade, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics assembles an army of people like Ms. de Souza, 180,000 people in all this year, in an effort to count this sprawling country's population.

This year, Bombay Hook will host a migratory bird count on 14 May from 7am-noon, with teams surveying sections of the refuge in an effort to count as many species of bird as possible.

The interview here began the 2000 census, an effort to count the population of the United States and find out where every one of the estimated 275 million Americans are living on April 1.

Someone on the Republican staff also made an effort to count the number of times that Donald Trump's name was listed in a competing, minority-proposed report that the Democrats, who have said that they were shut out of the process, released on Monday.

Republicans have promised to fight any effort to count even a single ballot, and on Wednesday persuaded Judge Sauls to order all 1.16 million ballots from the two counties brought to Tallahassee.

The decennial census — the once- a-decade effort to count every person living in the United States — is an enormous and complex task.

In October 2006 it was reported that an Army effort to count the number of contractors working or living in Iraq, pursuant to a call from the Office of Management and Budget, had foundered.

With a concerted effort to count ballots by hand, and agreement between the Bush and Gore camps to put the national interest above personal and party interests, Americans can find out who their next president is before the week is out.

The Navajos, for instance, have no tally on the number of feral horses on their land; a $2 million effort to count and round them up was vetoed by the tribe's president because of the cost.