Sentence examples for efforts to insert from inspiring English sources

He had thrown up his last meal, complicating efforts to insert a plastic oxygen tube into his lung.

A Dec. 18 news article says a United Nations conference ended "contentiously," when Asian countries rejected administration efforts to insert anti-abortion provisions into a family-planning agreement.

BP continued its efforts to insert a tube, meant to intercept the flow of oil, into the broken drill pipe using robotic submarines.

There are particular anxieties about congressional efforts to insert "buy America" provisions in the Obama administration's economic stimulus package - a move viewed by Britain, Canada and other top trading partners as naked protectionism.

In a wonderfully slapstick scene, Roach describes the engineers' efforts to insert a freshly thawed cadaver into a spacecraft mock-up: "Think of wrestling a comatose drunk into a taxicab".

In their news conference, the generals dismissed the public outrage last fall over their efforts to insert into the planned constitution explicit guarantees of the military's power and autonomy as a guardian of political stability.

If this next effort to insert weapons inspectors into Iraq fails, the world must grapple with the question of military intervention.

It represented a milestone for Lincoln in his effort to insert an antislavery agenda in the war to preserve the Union.

While touring in support of "1999," Prince had taken notice of white rock acts like Bob Seger and the J. Geils Band, and he had made a conscious effort to insert himself into the mainstream.

Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both Democrats, led the effort to insert the Volcker Rule in the Dodd-Frank act, the sweeping regulatory overhaul passed in response to the financial crisis.

The lawmakers, who also gathered signatures from an assortment of fellow Democrats and one Independent, led the effort to insert the Volcker Rule in the Dodd-Frank regulatory overhaul law.