Sentence examples for clear effort on from inspiring English sources

The moves are a clear effort on the part of Germany to challenge China's dominant position in production of the metals.

He added that the military tried to make "a very clear effort on our part to be sure we are not alienating people".

He said that further measures would be "unthinkable" without a clear effort on the part of Greece to sort out its problems, while adding that "when this is the case, then it is possible to apply external help measures".

I'm not sure they had a clear effort on goal".

Millwall's only clear effort on goal came when Steve Morison hit the bar with a header from Lee Martin's cross just after the hour as the Lions finished the day in 21st place, five points clear of the relegation zone.

Nevertheless, Broad Front leader Tabaré Vázquez Rosas adopted a moderate tone on most issues in a clear effort to build on the coalition's more than 40% approval rating in the polls.

In a clear effort to capitalize on the attention from Mr. Lieberman's endorsement, Mr. McCain held a news conference at the New Hampshire Political Library in Concord to announce a coalition of 300 independents who would work for his campaign.

That was one of Everton's few clear-cut efforts on goal after the break though, and despite eight minutes of stoppage time they failed to trouble McGregor again.

The suit by Swiss Re, the insurer with the most at stake in the Trade Center disaster, is a clear effort to put pressure on the alliance and possibly prompt some of the investors or lenders to pressure Mr. Silverstein to walk away from a rebuilding effort, experts say.

But the committee's confrontational tone and its clear effort to put pressure on the agency echoed demands made to the White House during the last week by Thomas Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey who is chairman of a national commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

Lenora Lapidus, legal director of the A.C.L.U. in New Jersey, called the ordinance "a watered-down version" of the ballot measure and said it was a clear effort to subvert state law on referendums.