Sentence examples for effort to adopt from inspiring English sources

Mr. Luck guided the United Nations' effort to adopt a new global standard known as "the responsibility to protect".

Any effort to adopt such a national program will be bucking a long tradition of strong local control over education.

In practice, one big concern is that any effort to adopt bail-ins could, depending on the jurisdiction, require significant changes to the rights of creditors.

Under election-year pressure from his social conservative base, Mr. Bush endorsed the effort to adopt a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

The intensity of the clash led to a consensus that the effort to adopt a constitution might have to be put off indefinitely.

Then there was the Carlyle Group's effort to adopt a provision requiring all of its shareholders to litigate all state fiduciary duty and federal securities law disputes in Wilmington, Del.

But efforts to adopt new rules have met with strong resistance.

At the July 25 meeting, officials explained the efforts to adopt the waterfront revitalization plan.

Senate Republican leaders and White House officials fought efforts to adopt a so-called pay-as-you-go rule.

Russia and China, which had used their vetoes on the council to block efforts to adopt a resolution on the Syrian conflict, agreed to the statement.

Over the last decade or so, some companies have made sporadic efforts to adopt workplace wellness programs, some of which had incentives of various sorts attached.