Sentence examples for efforts to count from inspiring English sources

Efforts to count freshly dug graves had been abandoned.

But even the most diligent efforts to count people will not find everyone, Mr. McMillen said, because many urban residents move frequently.

Damaged telephone lines on both islands hampered efforts to count the casualties and assess the destruction from the earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.0.

Mr. Blastland and Mr. Dilnot describe Britain's efforts to count its hedgehog population (the National Hedgehog Survey) because of worries that this shy animal was in decline.

With few states left, she and her aides said they would step up their efforts to count the disputed results in Florida and Michigan, where the states held contests in defiance of Democratic Party rules.

Economists have had difficulty recalibrating the B.D.I. to reflect the vessel imbalance, because, among other things, China's lack of transparency hinders efforts to count how many boats have been built, how many are in drydock, and how many are in so-called zombie fleets, desperately patrolling the waters for business at any price.

This just wasn't a good-faith effort to count votes.

He then joined his colleagues in deciding to give up the effort to count the ballots altogether.

There has been no effort to count eligible voters, let alone educate citizens about their rights and obligations.

Before Brown was killed, a major government effort to count people killed by police could be mothballed without anybody noticing.

How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?