Sentence examples for breakdown of efforts from inspiring English sources

They noted that Europe's refusal to accept an American-backed proposal allowing the trading of emissions reductions had led to the breakdown of efforts at The Hague last November to forge an agreement that might have brought the Kyoto Protocol's ratification, and by extension to the Bush administration's decision to abandon any support for the treaty.

The military effort, dubbed Operation Zarb-e-Azb, had long been expected following the predicted breakdown of government efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban.

It is also potentially dangerous at a time when the entire Mideast has become more volatile following the breakdown of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.

It's impossible to calculate all it taught me and the warnings it gave me, but to begin with motherhood: Lessing writes about the conflicts between the maternal and the erotic life, of the responsibility that can keep a suicidal mother alive in the midst of breakdown, of the efforts (sometimes disastrous) to conduct a career while rearing a child.

Below is a breakdown of sign collecting efforts we've discovered on Twitter.

Mr. Vajpayee's announcement comes after the breakdown of a peace effort last August.

The Israeli government is making contingency plans for a total breakdown of the peace effort.

The breakdown of the latest unification effort is a blow not only to Mr. Annan, but also to Turkey's effort to join the European Union.

We called the French presidential election correctly, predicted the violent breakdown of the Spanish government's peace efforts with the Basque terrorists of ETA, flagged the likelihood of a clash between secularists and Islamists in Turkey, and sketched out how the European Union's rejected constitutional treaty would be resuscitated in a new form.

It was the first officially announced negotiating session between senior Israeli and Palestinian officers since the breakdown of an American-mediated cease-fire effort in October.

Whatever money they'd save by cutting wages, bosses assume, would be cancelled out by the decline in effort and the breakdown of trust that wage cuts would create.