Sentence examples for efforts to extract from inspiring English sources

Efforts to extract oil from the tar sands soon followed.

Efforts to extract more would, as you will see, be a painful experience.

Obviously, that case involved deliberate efforts to extract information in the absence of counsel.

Elsewhere in Westminster on Wednesday, David Cameron pointed to the government's continued efforts to extract assurances from Pfizer.

Mr. Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in 2003 as part of the government's efforts to extract information.

A trucker died despite efforts to extract him by a crash victim on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

And, just as important, ABC Family has made no headway in its efforts to extract bigger fees from cable operators.

More ambitious are efforts to extract thoughts directly from the brain, rather than scavenging the digital footprints we leave behind.

Earlier efforts to extract a current from photosynthesis failed because the proteins that capture energy from sunlight died without water.

Similarly, they see democracy lectures as disguised efforts to extract concessions, or propaganda paid for by aggrieved oligarchs.

It somehow becomes lodged, and the consequent paroxysms, and the lackey's unavailing efforts to extract the thing, do tear-making justice to Sterne's conception.