Sentence examples for collapse of efforts from inspiring English sources

BUSINESS DAY The Common Sense column on Sept. 8, about the collapse of efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose new regulations on money market funds, misstated the interest rate on Vanguard's Prime money market fund.

Few of the participants seemed to be high-ranking figures — most countries simply sent their ambassadors — but the meeting appeared designed to project an image of Iran as a regional power broker after the collapse of efforts by the United Nations and the Arab League.

The panel's study was commissioned by Pentagon leaders after the collapse of efforts to prosecute Marines involved in a 2005 massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, which resulted in widespread outcry and raised the prospect that the system of having a service hold its own courts-martial for members accused of war crimes was broken.

In addition to escalated arms sales to other anti-American states like Iran and Venezuela, policy makers and specialists in Washington envision a freeze on counterterrorism and nuclear nonproliferation cooperation, manipulation of oil and natural gas supplies, pressure against United States military bases in Central Asia and the collapse of efforts to extend cold war-era arms control treaties.

[C3.] Failure of Daewoo Talks Hurt Banks South Korea will have to spend $44 billion more to prop up domestic banks, which were hit hard by the collapse of efforts last week to sell the nearly bankrupt Daewoo Motor Company, the nation's finance minister said.

Iran's burst of diplomatic activity appeared designed to take advantage of the collapse of efforts by Kofi Annan, the UN envoy on Syria, though most anti-Assad rebels, like the western and Arab countries that back them, see Iran as part of the problem and incapable of providing a solution.

A telling moment was the collapse last week of efforts to strike a compromise on offshore oil drilling.

In an attempt to prevent a collapse of diplomatic efforts to end Syria's five-year-old civil war, Kerry is pushing for a ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid access before a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Munich this week.

His visit comes on the heels of the latest collapse of peace efforts, with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry, despite a concentrated effort, unable to bring Palestinian and Israeli leaders any closer.

West African countries sent a new envoy to try to broker a truce after the collapse of mediation efforts over the weekend, but the rebels vowed to push on from Bouaké, the country's second largest city, to the commercial hub, Abidjan, 225 miles to the south.

All were at least partly responsible for the collapse of peace efforts, a senior Jordanian official said.