Sentence examples for decade of effort from inspiring English sources

The city finally shut it down last year after nearly a decade of effort.

Iran now appears to have enriched uranium, but that was after more than a decade of effort.

Despite more than a decade of effort by advocates, the New York Legislature has failed to enact a remedy.

But they did so only after a decade of effort and by implanting electrodes inside the brain of paralyzed volunteers.

While Bond cannot be here to share in the triumph, the decade of effort by him and his team should be recognized.

The court scolded the officials for capitulating to the demands in a panic and for failing to capture him after a decade of effort.

And more than a decade of efforts to diversify the economy have largely failed.

Still, there are signs that Cambodia's garment factories, after a decade of efforts to improve labor standards, are now starting to concern themselves with environmental issues, too.

After more than a decade of efforts to improve the standing of Afghan women, violence against them occurs across much of the country with impunity.

Despite a decade of efforts, he said, the A.T.F. has been unable to shut that dealer down because of weak federal gun laws.

For Waxman, passage of the Clean Air overhaul was the culmination of a decade of efforts to reduce sources of urban smog, industrial toxic chemicals and acid rain.