Sentence examples for efforts on passing from inspiring English sources

The official said the White House had made a strategic decision to focus all its efforts on passing the overhaul rather than acting unilaterally to make smaller changes.

Some advocates of reform, recognizing the enormous constitutional hurdle, instead focused their efforts on passing a so-called National Popular Vote (NPV) bill through state legislatures.

So, at first, she focused all of her efforts on passing the first major test: the first qualifying exam.

Now, beleaguered Republicans in Congress are hastily focusing their efforts on passing their latest repeal and replace measure for Obamacare in a effort to fulfill a longstanding political promise.

Practice an effort on passing - clothing, manners, and speech (body language is so so important).

Senior leadership is instructed on the importance and value of diversity, but their efforts are often focused on passing down the message in town hall meetings.

In a continued effort to pass on any responsibility for the largest data breach in American history, Equifax's recently departed CEO is blaming it all on a single person who failed to deploy a patch.

Pintas had been thought to be extinct when George was discovered in 1971, and efforts to pass on some of his genes by breeding him were unsuccessful.

He's created a co-crusader in the form of Nora, the head dinner lady from the first school he transformed - and Nora deserves a special award for her indefatigable efforts to pass on her new knowledge to everyone else.

Engle focusses on efforts to pass legislation to make these medications prescription-only — a measure that has significantly reduced lab numbers in some states — and the response of the pharmaceuticals lobby, which wants to keep the meds from going behind the counter.

Cook has examined Edwardian mothers' efforts to pass on the revulsion that they felt about their own bodies and sexual experiences to their innocent daughters (Cook, 2012).