Sentence examples for efforts at a time from inspiring English sources

The administration of President Jimmy Carter was convinced, and the United States abandoned plutonium-reprocessing efforts at a time when it could have gone the other way.

Mr. Cheney is expanding his fund-raising efforts at a time when Senate Republicans are seeking help to regain control of the chamber.

He was appointed as director of strategy at the Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror in 2004 to head the group's advertising and marketing efforts, at a time when a slump in circulation was providing newspaper executives with a major headache.

The apparent receding of peace efforts at a time of persistent violence and a steadily diminishing American role is a bleak prospect for all Afghans and the Westerners who support them.

The slaying and the Israeli reprisal jolted peace efforts at a time when political talks and security contacts between the Israelis and Palestinians had seemed to be building a modest momentum.

This source of on-the-ground, real-time information enabled global reporting and co-ordination of aid and peace efforts at a time when international news and aid organisations had been paralysed by a Government-led media black out.

"There will be huge expenditure of time and effort at a time when economic and international challenges place enormous demands on Europe's governmental machines".

Kevin Stayton, the Brooklyn Museum's chief curator, said it was an effort, at a time of strained budgets, to make sure that "we're not overextending ourselves".

It is a five-year, $10 million effort at a time when the sport needs a boost: In the past decade, betting is down 37 percent, attendance is down 30 percent, and starts per horse and race days are each down 14 percent.

In 2014, the author spent four weeks as a substitute teacher in his Maine school district — in an effort, at a time of fraught debates about education policy, to "know what life in classrooms was really like".

Trump's policies undermine that effort at a time when U.S. renewable energy companies are already fighting for market share and technological leadership against foreign competitors, most notably China's solar and wind companies.