Sentence examples for clever efforts from inspiring English sources

Given its clever efforts to cater to local tastes (menus offer congee and egg tarts) and its successful recovery from the SARS crisis, it should rebound.Still, it will not be easy.

While Kennett carefully describes in excruciating detail all of Sherman's flaws -- contradictory positions, occasional sloppiness in tactical readiness and clever efforts to improve his own image at the expense of rivals -- he gives the controversial ravager grudging respect in curtailing rather than expanding the killing of desperate and outnumbered Confederate soldiers.

Eric Tabarly, the robust Frenchman known as the "iron man" for his daring and clever efforts at sailing across oceans single-handedly, was lost at sea late last Friday after falling overboard from his century-old sailboat, Pen Duick, near the coast of Wales.

The document also lists "compromise/disclosure of sensitive information" as a possible threat, which is probably a tribute to the work of Edward Snowden and his clever efforts to collect sensitive data from within the NSA.

His clever efforts had prompted a former congressman, a U.S. senator, and the Pennsylvania legislature to lobby for him to receive a medal upgrade -- until his fraud was uncovered.

He has since said that the amendment was actually a clever effort to sabotage the bill, which included a path to legalization, and prevent it from being passed.

Even some rivals, such as Royal Dutch/ Shell, are now following BP's lead.So was this a clever effort to seize yet another "first-mover advantage" over his rivals?

Mr. Gehry's clever effort to take both sides mirrors in many respects this city's struggle over how to manage growth and its most nettlesome consequence, sprawl.

Robert Lewandowski went close to adding another goal late in the game when he hit the post with a low shot but Thomas Müller slotted in with a clever effort from a tight angle in stoppage time for Bayern's third.

We ended by applauding (or locomotivating, if you prefer) the clever effort by members of the Class of '52 to entrust their legacy to their grandchild class of 2002, which at its own 50th reunion will open 1952's time capsule and pass its story on to the young graduates of 2052.

But conservation -- saving energy by using it more efficiently -- can also make a huge difference, and for Mr. Cheney to imply otherwise simply reinforces the suspicion that his strategy is little more than a clever effort to sell the country on the need for more drilling.