Sentence examples for dangerous effort from inspiring English sources

But whales worldwide and those who care about them should breathe easier with the demise of this dangerous effort to overturn the global whaling ban.

A fire often builds to a definable chaos before firefighters enter it to bring it — with great and dangerous effort — to a manageable order.

American and Russian submarines used to track one another at close quarters, seeking information and advantage in a dangerous effort to control the ocean depths.

Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and a co-author of the new law, said the spending constraints were "a deliberate and dangerous effort to frustrate increased regulation of the financial industry," including hedge funds and derivatives.

In a dangerous effort to appease the extremist gun lobby, Mr. Ashcroft has reversed standard F.B.I. procedures so that gun purchase records of suspected terrorists must be kept secret.

A January legal brief by lawyers for Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman — written in part by Viet D. Dinh, a conservative former assistant attorney general in the Bush Justice Department — argued that the charges were a dangerous effort to criminalize conduct protected by the First Amendment.

Yet the group also won national recognition for sponsoring daring, and sometimes dangerous, efforts to promote environmental protection.

That way people can be atomised, separated from one another, seeking personal gain alone, diverted from dangerous efforts to think for themselves and challenge authority.

She points out that she has been highly critical of the administration, both for its lack of domestic action and for its "dangerous" efforts overseas to dilute the Kyoto pact.

He's retroactively investing the modern world with the spirit of unquestioned and selfless struggle, ripping the floorboards off the ostensibly peaceful daily life of today's Canada and Great Britain (and, by implication, the United States of Hollywood) to reveal its foundation in the grim and dangerous efforts undertaken, unquestioningly and unflinchingly, in the Second World War.

That way people can be atomized, separated from one another, seeking personal gain alone, diverted from dangerous efforts to think for themselves and challenge authority.