Sentence examples for effort to effect from inspiring English sources

In Washington, Lessig's effort to effect rapid change was generally perceived as doomed or foolish.

Even those white industry players who make a good-faith effort to effect change often cling to dubious Hollywood formulas.

If you continue to decline to negotiate with us, we will have no choice but to continue our effort to effect a transaction unilaterally.

But Mr. Humer emphasized Roche's willingness to proceed with a hostile takeover, if necessary, saying, "If you continue to decline to negotiate with us, we will have no choice but to continue our effort to effect a transaction unilaterally".

The best chapter, Ralph Nader is a Big Fat Idiot, recounts Tobias heroic but not-yet-successful effort to effect genuine auto insurance reform in California and elsewhere.

It is also unclear what a successful collective effort to effect moral healing between or within large groups of people would mean in terms of individual wrongdoers and their specific victims.

Thoreau would not scorn contemporary efforts to effect his gospel and follow his example.

Brown characterized Woods's efforts to effect social change as "terrible, terrible".

Constantine's efforts to effect a reconciliation failed, and the schism between Rome and Constantinople was final.

Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said "precedence should be given to ending the violence and continuing efforts to effect profound political and socioeconomic changes in Syria without delay".

She has the backing of the teachers' union and sizable labor support, which Mr. Giuliani's aides have suggested could undermine any of her efforts to effect school reform.