Sentence examples for effort to transform a from inspiring English sources

From the beginning of the war more than seven years ago, the state of electricity has been one of the most closely watched benchmarks of Iraq's progress, and of the American effort to transform a dictatorship into a democracy.

He compared the situation to America's involvement in Lebanon in the 1980s, "when a regional ally, Israel, pulled us into a failed state in a quixotic effort to transform a hostile neighbor into a pliant ally".

The effort to transform a tiny island in Fiji into a sustainable, democratically run community, is now a year old and has grown to 1,160 "tribe" members from 35 countries.

"It was an act of resistance, an artistic and human effort to transform a stab in the back into something positive," said Ms. Crippa, who stars as Varvara Petrovna Stavrogina, the mother of one of the central characters in "The Demons".

The city of Elizabeth, for example, is making a concerted effort to transform a 177-acre site at the southern end of Ports Newark and Elizabeth that had been used for heavy manufacturing and distribution into a mixed-use hotel, retail and high-technology center.

It has taken him decades to land a major commission here, and now the IAC building joins a string of high-profile towers, all part of an effort to transform a noisy strip of the West Side Highway into a glamorous waterfront promenade for the kind of wealthy socialites who once scorned him.

They are leading an effort to transform an existing fund-order processing service at the clearing corporation into the kind of time-stamped "lockbox" that would give fund middlemen more time to process orders while assuring that no late orders could be taken.

But he warned that efforts to transform a pub into a house or a flat would incur greater difficulties: "Conversion to residential use is often fraught".

Mr. Messier was blamed for saddling Vivendi with nearly 18 billion euros of debt in his efforts to transform a traditional French water utility into a media empire.

Under the plan, the center would be part of the Walnut Association's efforts to transform a waterfront area into an artist's colony that would include new shops, restaurants and tourist attractions like the Stowe house to help revitalize an area that has never recovered from the closing of an amusement park about a 50 years ago.

This is also the range at which the partially saturated mortar needs external effort to transform into a block.