Sentence examples for effort to modify from inspiring English sources

Someone without any overt chaos in his life accepted his state of homelessness without the least effort to modify it.

When he first arrived in Washington in 2007, Mr. Millard began an effort to modify the agency's investment strategy.

American geneticist and biochemist J. Craig Venter led an effort to modify the genes of microbes to secrete oil.

Mr. Lieberman has questioned the White House's effort to modify the sections of the Clean Air Act on coal-burning power plants.

Mr. Ditzel said on Friday that Mr. Torvalds had led an effort to modify Linux to run without a hard disk to make it usable by inexpensive consumer appliances.

The book is a racy account of Dr. Magueijo's seemingly heretical effort to modify relativity so that the speed of light is not constant, and he will promote it on a long lecture tour.

Mr. Obama has also called for federal agencies to work more closely with the states on efforts to modify mortgages.

Those second-lien mortgages have to be renegotiated separately, a step that often complicates efforts to modify the primary loans.

The recent federal tax rebates and efforts to modify more loans have also helped somewhat, analysts say.

The banks frequently portray settlement-related activities as only a fraction of their broader efforts to modify troubled loans.

Instead, the city seemed to shelve efforts to modify the consent decree, which is the bedrock of the city's right to shelter the truly homeless.