Sentence examples for effort to count from inspiring English sources

This just wasn't a good-faith effort to count votes.

Before Brown was killed, a major government effort to count people killed by police could be mothballed without anybody noticing.

There has been no effort to count eligible voters, let alone educate citizens about their rights and obligations.

He then joined his colleagues in deciding to give up the effort to count the ballots altogether.

Some in the field have cited 5,000, but an effort to count schools turned up about half that.

The traditional emphasis on face time, after all, is easy for managers: it takes much less effort to count hours than it does to measure results.

Efforts to count freshly dug graves had been abandoned.

But even the most diligent efforts to count people will not find everyone, Mr. McMillen said, because many urban residents move frequently.

Damaged telephone lines on both islands hampered efforts to count the casualties and assess the destruction from the earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.0.

Mr. Blastland and Mr. Dilnot describe Britain's efforts to count its hedgehog population (the National Hedgehog Survey) because of worries that this shy animal was in decline.

With few states left, she and her aides said they would step up their efforts to count the disputed results in Florida and Michigan, where the states held contests in defiance of Democratic Party rules.