Sentence examples for efforts picked from inspiring English sources

It was under then information minister Connie Mulder in the 1970s that South Africa's propaganda efforts picked up serious steam.

Relief efforts picked up the pace, with caravans of bottled water and instant noodles arriving, much of it transported from the provincial capital 12 hours away.

In 1982, after an undergraduate research paper written by Gregory Watson, then a student at the University of Texas in Austin, became the foundation for a movement to curtail political corruption by ratifying the amendment, efforts picked up steam.

It was only when Pimentel persuaded Van Hulst to join them that their rescue efforts picked up speed.

But Maale Adumim is the first major expansion proposal since peace efforts picked up after the death in November of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and it marks an important test of the administration's intentions, analysts said.

Survivors' distress worsens as law and order breaks down in some parts, though relief efforts pick up pace.

As this and other efforts pick up momentum, more robust scientific evidence released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), paint a sobering scenario.

The effort picked up steam the next year after the House of Representatives passed what is known as cap-and-trade legislation, a concept invented by conservative Reagan-era economists.

This effort picked up steam after UN sanctions were lifted in September 2003 and after Libya announced in December 2003 that it would abandon programs to build weapons of mass destruction.

Dean Parrett, who opened the scoring in the first leg with a stunning curling effort, picked up midfielder Simon Walton's corner on the edge of the box and sent an effort towards goal, which took a big deflection and bounced to Pett, who finished from six yards out.

The Catalan independence effort picked up steam in the 2000s.