Sentence examples for characterized efforts from inspiring English sources

Chuck Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999 in Indianapolis, characterized efforts by companies to ship jobs elsewhere as a typical cost-cutting maneuver.

Unlike the bitter disagreements that have characterized efforts to limit access to guns, the idea of improving mental health unites Republicans and Democrats, urban and rural, blue state and red state.

That was before the name-calling and walkouts of more recent days that have characterized efforts to work out a deficit reduction deal to pave the way for an extension of the country's $14.3 trillion debt limit.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) recently characterized efforts by a state Democratic legislator to coordinate a meeting with him as disingenuous "bullshit".

They have again characterized efforts to destroy ivory as feel-good wastes of time that fritter away valuable resources needed to counter the effects of poaching.

"Too few and too slow," is the way one official characterizes efforts so far.

Mr. President as long as you characterize efforts to uphold moral conduct that protects others and in particular the most vulnerable, as attacking people, civility will continue to evade us.

On Tuesday, defense lawyers for Mr. Padilla and critics of the Bush administration's policy on enemy combatants attacked what they characterized as efforts by the government to try Mr. Padilla in the news media, rather than in court.

And the tragedy is that for too long the movement to overturn Citizens United has been characterized by efforts like Prop 59 that exist in that purgatory between nothing and something.

He took issue with those who characterized geoengineering efforts as a Band-Aid.

Determined to remain in office, Rousseff characterized the efforts to oust her as a coup.