Sentence examples for brief effort from inspiring English sources

Apart from a brief effort during the twenties, "The Prophet" has never been advertised.

The lack of historical perspective is disappointing, but the program does make a commendable, if brief, effort to look beyond the well-publicized scandals it revisits.

Maybe he liked the fact that Vegas, after a brief effort to offer family-friendly attractions in the early 90's, had reverted to its Rat Pack roots.

There was a brief effort to draft Henry Cabot Lodge II (a figure with certain dynastic parallels to Jeb Bush), but it faded.

This talented mathematician has been said to recall with complete accuracy a list of 25 unrelated words after only a brief effort to memorize, and to recite the value of pi (an endless number) to a thousand places or more.

The brief effort to draft Sir Keir was an act of fantasy politics – but also a sign, perhaps, of unhappiness with the field on offer and of a slightly desperate longing for an untainted saviour.

Compare these relatively brief efforts with the iron commitments of three men fighting for a clean and free-flowing Ganges: the late Nigamanand (68 days); Nigamanand's teacher, Swami Shivanand (21 days, in 2000); and Agrawal (who hasn't eaten since Feb. 8 or taken water since March 8).

As it was, when the final shakeout in the 70-strong peloton began on the penultimate lap amid heavy rain showers, it was the Yorkshirewoman's team-mates Anna Christian and Hannah Barnes who initially lit the fuse, making brief efforts before the Australian Rachel Neylan opened a more definitive gap.

Following the Beatles' brief efforts with "Something" on 28 January, Harrison talked with Lennon and Yoko Ono about recording a solo album of his unused songs, since he had already stockpiled enough compositions "for the next ten years", given his usual allocation of two tracks per album, and in order to "preserve this, the Beatle bit, more".

Various researchers have been involved in the design and evaluation of continuing care protocols [ 47– 49] which see 'acute' interventions at times of particular difficulty supplemented with brief efforts to support longer-term self-management.

It is surely quite unprecedented for a man who wants to be prime minister on Friday to have his senior frontbench colleagues launch a major – and anonymous – briefing effort to challenge the impartial cabinet secretary and the constitutional conventions 72 hours before the election.