Sentence examples for criticised efforts from inspiring English sources

This time it was IBM, whose hastily withdrawn campaign joins the ranks of other criticised efforts, including the European Commission's "Science: It's A Girl Thing" video, and EDF Energy's "Pretty Curious" initiative.

In his first foreign trip as a White House candidate he offended one of America's closest allies, the UK, by criticising efforts to prepare for the Olympic Games and drew fierce criticism for suggesting while in Israel that the Palestinians' relative poverty was due to cultural differences.

Full details of the shake-up are due to be published next week by Education Secretary Michael Gove - who last month criticised "misguided" efforts to insist on same-race matches.

Some critics have criticised her efforts as "generic cruise ship", despite the spiders and stars projected onto her face during "Space Oddity".

Full details of the shakeup will be published next week by the education secretary, Michael Gove, who last month criticised "misguided" efforts to insist on same-race matches.

Rodman travelled to Pyongyang, the capital, via Beijing with a squad of a dozen former basketball stars including Vin Baker and Cliff Robinson in what he calls "basketball diplomacy", although US officials have criticised his efforts.

"I think he'll bring a new dimension to British athletics – an honesty that probably we haven't had and a directness," she said of the man who famously criticised her efforts in the final event of the Olympic heptathlon in 2004, saying she ran the 800m "like a wimp".

He criticised "unjustified" efforts by Buenos Aires to disrupt shipping links.

Nina Oding, an economist at the city's Leontief Centre, criticised "clumsy efforts by the state somehow to regulate price formation".

After Bernstein's address to delegates was given a distinctly cool reception, a succession of speakers criticised his efforts to delay the vote.

That footage led to a tenfold increase in newspaper coverage, and a massive – if rightly criticised – aid effort.