Sentence examples for efforts for a while from inspiring English sources

Phelps helpfully obliged Lochte's efforts for a while, devoting much of the next three years to Vegas jaunts and posing for the bong paparazzi.

The company has been fairly serious about its connected-device efforts for a while but hasn't quite been able to get anything to gel.

And it is also forging ahead in trying to get a more standardised playing field for HTML5 content — an area where it has been making efforts for a while now.

A blanket ban on Uber's autonomous efforts "would certainly stall its efforts for a while and put it even further behind Waymo and others".

Continue your efforts for a while, and be loud!

Newsom has been involved in this effort for a while now -- he's not just jumping on the bandwagon late in the game.

After recuperating at home, Hemingway renewed his efforts at writing, for a while worked at odd jobs in Chicago, and sailed for France as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star.

Those efforts were successful for a while, but Abramoff and DeLay had both been brought down by legal problems by the time the Democrats retook Congress in 2006.

In the meanwhile, the English intelligence service infiltrated the rebel group in Holland and effectively thwarted their efforts — at least for a while.

At the end of the day people who plan to defraud others have a good chance of keeping their efforts hidden at least for a while.

"She's meaningful in that she made bold efforts for independence while still a student, and female," says Ko ah-ra, a guide at the small museum.