Sentence examples for efforts telling from inspiring English sources
He dismissed Western democracy-building efforts, telling the Times of London in 2005 that democracy "is not worth a brass farthing if it is installed by bayonet".
But she brushed aside his efforts, telling him she believed her work with gangs like the Blackstone Rangers in Chicago made her unfit for the MacArthur imprimatur.
Here, too, Iñárritu makes a big show of his efforts, telling a very simple and straightforward story with a camera style (realized by the cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki) that plays like Terrence Malick Lite.
Trump, however, has repeatedly dismissed suggestions that Russia was behind the efforts, telling Time magazine earlier this week: "I don't believe they interfered..
When he took the job, he insisted that he be given a faculty appointment and that the college hire other people of color to support its efforts, telling the school's provost, "You're not going to have me as the sort of Negro representative of everything".
On Broadway, the narrator, prototypical liberal James Reston, Jr., who serves on Frost's research team, identifies a moral purpose to their efforts, telling his boss that the interviews must function as "the trial Richard Nixon never had," insisting that "the integrity of our political system" requires convicting the former president of his crimes.
Sarfraz Ali, who was leading the recovery efforts, told reporters that his team had recovered 110 bodies after six hours.
Mary Marks, the district's director of community relations, who is coordinating the outreach efforts, told Ms. Wu: "That crosses cultural barriers.
"We've only still got to search the basement," Brg Gen Siddiqul Alam Sikder, who is heading the recovery efforts, told the AFP news agency.
Taban Sami Shoresh, a British Kurd helping with the relief efforts, told the BBC she had never seen so many people "scramble for survival" when an aid helicopter landed.
"We were surprised," Courtney Seiter, who heads up Buffer's inclusivity efforts, told The Huffington Post.
