Sentence examples for efforts not to from inspiring English sources

I made efforts not to spleen him, but did sometimes.

Islandia officials wanted to build the road to deter preservation efforts, not to deter development.

That makes him a target, despite his scrupulous efforts not to upset the ruling Communist Party.

In fact the UN process might be better characterised, as per the Saudis' obstructive example, as the sum of many countries' efforts not to cool the planet.

His freshman year had been squeezed by his efforts not to fail and fall back into the farmland and his disconsolate family.

Refugees report seeing lorry-loads of corpses dumped in lakes, soldiers and paramilitary groups swapping uniforms to avoid identification, and efforts not to bury victims in mass graves.

Indeed, while Ms. Said's theatrical cocktail might be viewed as personal and political, she said she made efforts not to offend any group.

Pending rubbish as vast experiments in hyperlocal sites (such as AoL's Patch network) fiddle with ways, means and efforts not to lose more money.

The Israeli Army, he told reporters, "has the highest level of morality in the world, and it is making supreme efforts not to harm civilians".

No nation on earth has ever tried as hard, and failed as utterly, in its efforts not to become rich as America has.

I'd like to see what happens next, though in his efforts not to be racy I did wonder at times whether Neil Jordan was succeeding too well.