Sentence examples for effort to affect from inspiring English sources

The Gators won so easily and often, and Mr. Spurrier made so little effort to affect modesty, that his detractors called him Steve Superior.

He said he feared the article would make the counsel's office look as if it was engaged in a "ham-handed" effort to affect the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton, which was under way.

Is a Kurd who sets off a bomb in Washington in an effort to affect our alliance with Turkey — knowing and perhaps caring nothing about our freedom — not a terrorist?

Over the summer, Anonymous published a list of Twitter accounts being used by the group, while flooding others with unrelated images in an effort to affect search engine results.

Religion might simply be overlaying a thinly guided effort to affect the policy making of another country.

These recommendations are offered (again) with love, not one ounce of blame, gratitude for anyone making even the tiniest effort to affect positive change, and hope for a better understanding in the not-so-distant future.

We continue in our efforts to affect what is going on outside the walls of our prisons.

In the meantime, efforts to affect behaviour in the upper echelons of Britain's banks seem doomed.

So it's a bummer for Corker that Cotton's efforts seem to have hurt his efforts to affect the outcome.

But as with most efforts to affect attitudes and behavior, advocates and industry executives viewed the new ads with a mixture of hope and caution.

It requires lobbyists, who already file public reports on their efforts to affect legislation, to do the same reporting when they try to affect the awarding of state contracts.