Sentence examples for attempts to effect from inspiring English sources

Too many well-intentioned projects fail in their attempts to effect change because of their transience.

In the past, tensions between chancellors, mayors and board members, all of whom had their own political motivations, often crippled attempts to effect lasting change.

Frantic with worry and impatience at first; later he appears older, balder, with a thin moustache, utterly unable to respond to Jake's boorish attempts to effect a tearful reconciliation in the street.

Despite attempts to effect a synthesis between the two languages, however, the scholastic style has continued to have a profound influence on modern Tamil literature; the normal spoken language, in fact, never became a literary medium.

Although the Carlists were defeated, thereafter they upheld their cause in the face of the constitutional regime of Isabella and unsuccessful attempts to effect a dynastic reconciliation through a marriage between Isabella II and Don Carlos's heir, Don Carlos, conde de Montemolín.

Consequently, transformative mediation first attempts to effect change among disputants on emotional, spiritual and intellectual levels to eliminate obstacles to reconciliation.

With Jayawardene scuttling back for two, the keeper collected the throw from the boundary but then missed the stumps with his attempt to effect the run out.

Having directed an earlier movie set in Birmingham's black community, Penny Woolcock was called in by local gang leaders a couple of years ago to document an attempt to effect a truce there.

It is a pity, though, that Tutu did not choose to attend the event and then attempt to effect a citizen's arrest on Blair as a war criminal.

But technology vendors can't and shouldn't attempt to effect this transformation alone.

Hence, the Ministry of Education should look for other alternatives in making sure that the attempt to effect large-scale change at the classroom level is achieved smoothly and successfully.