Sentence examples for disjointed efforts from inspiring English sources

Disjointed efforts at ball carrying was in keeping with the scrappy efforts of his teammates.

As we surveyed China's modern past before undertaking this project, it looked something like a series of miscellaneous one-act plays all involving failed reforms, broken dreams, disjointed efforts at national self-reinvention or dead-end revolutions that did not add up to anything coherent.

But instead of meaningful solutions, what we get are disjointed efforts often aimed at addressing symptoms rather than causes.

Rather, interactions between security and health sector actors are best characterized as ad hoc, frequently disjointed efforts that evolve and congeal long after opportunities to protect health sectors and avoid unintended consequences has passed.

Girardi summoned Warren to the mound after disjointed efforts from Hiroki Kuroda, who left in the second inning after taking a line drive off the middle finger on his pitching hand, and Cody Eppley, who was battered by Red Sox hitters.

The report, by the academy's Institute of Medicine, said that after years of fitful, disjointed efforts the government must use its leverage as a buyer, regulator and provider of care to upgrade the quality of services received by 100 million Americans in six federal programs.

But as Wednesday's disjointed effort showed, that alone will not be enough, and the growing process will need to continue.

The first two were muted, though, while Navas's brain-freeze when trying to find a final ball also contributed to City's rather disjointed effort.

Back in wolves' clothing, Los Lobos released Colossal Head (Warner, 1996), a creditable but disjointed effort on which fiery rockers ("Mas y Mas") sat alongside more avant-garde numbers, such as the title track.

It also revealed the deepening frustrations between Pakistan and the United States in what officials on both sides concede is an often dysfunctional and disjointed effort to combat a rising militancy, which uses havens in Pakistan to carry out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan with growing frequency.

The coalition brings a focus to the traditionally disjointed economic development efforts of the county's individual chambers, he said.