Sentence examples for costly effort from inspiring English sources

Instead, drivers trucked them away, a costly effort, Mr. Rasmussen said.

A good chunk of it went into a costly effort to establish itself in China — an effort it recently abandoned.

Preparing TCF Bank Stadium was a complicated, costly effort, beginning with the removal of about 40,000 cubic yards of snow, according to the university spokesman Garry Bowman.

A less fortunate aspect of the national urge to reassert France's stature in the world was the Fourth Republic's costly effort to hold the colonial empire.

Mr. Rollins argued all along for hunkering down in Iowa and not expending much costly effort on other early-voting states.

But Michael Ballinger, a spokesman for MBIA, said the settlement was simply a way "to avoid the long, time-consuming and costly effort involved in a court proceeding".

A successful reconstruction program for Iraq will require a sustained and costly effort to provide jobs and basic services over the next year, the panel reported.