Sentence examples for effort to insert a from inspiring English sources

He cites two examples: the Social Platform's campaign for new anti-discrimination legislation, and its effort to insert a clause in the draft EU constitution, making consultation with civil society a legal obligation.This last (successful) campaign was, perhaps, a tad self-interested.

Melissa Bean of the Wall Street-friendly New Democrat Coalition led the effort to insert a huge loophole in a bill that would have forced TARP recipients like AIG to stop paying "retention bonuses" as long as they were being supported by taxpayer dollars.

It represented a milestone for Lincoln in his effort to insert an antislavery agenda in the war to preserve the Union.

Rather, "we believe that the Chinese state has employed a plethora of state-run media to exploit the openness of American democratic society in an effort to insert an intentionally distorted and biased narrative portraying a utopian view of the Chinese government and party," the researchers wrote.

WASHINGTON -- Two top veterans groups have come out against a Senate GOP effort to insert an Iran sanctions amendment into an unrelated veterans bill, putting the party at odds with a constituency that leans Republican.

He had thrown up his last meal, complicating efforts to insert a plastic oxygen tube into his lung.

BP continued its efforts to insert a tube, meant to intercept the flow of oil, into the broken drill pipe using robotic submarines.

In a wonderfully slapstick scene, Roach describes the engineers' efforts to insert a freshly thawed cadaver into a spacecraft mock-up: "Think of wrestling a comatose drunk into a taxicab".

What trade specialists in Washington—Fred Bergsten among them should really be asking is this: do the president's trade goals make sense?The administration's various actions and policy pronouncements notably, its capitulation over the Helms-Burton act and its misguided efforts to insert a social clause into the World Trade Organisation (WTO)—raise grave doubts.

The present work also makes an effort to insert this local history into its broader context, in order to contribute to existing knowledge regarding late Holocene changes at the regional level.

While touring in support of "1999," Prince had taken notice of white rock acts like Bob Seger and the J. Geils Band, and he had made a conscious effort to insert himself into the mainstream.