Sentence examples for efforts to insert a from inspiring English sources
He had thrown up his last meal, complicating efforts to insert a plastic oxygen tube into his lung.
BP continued its efforts to insert a tube, meant to intercept the flow of oil, into the broken drill pipe using robotic submarines.
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".
What trade specialists in Washington—Fred Bergsten among them should really be asking is this: do the president's trade goals make sense?The administration's various actions and policy pronouncements notably, its capitulation over the Helms-Burton act and its misguided efforts to insert a social clause into the World Trade Organisation (WTO)—raise grave doubts.
He cites two examples: the Social Platform's campaign for new anti-discrimination legislation, and its effort to insert a clause in the draft EU constitution, making consultation with civil society a legal obligation.This last (successful) campaign was, perhaps, a tad self-interested.
Melissa Bean of the Wall Street-friendly New Democrat Coalition led the effort to insert a huge loophole in a bill that would have forced TARP recipients like AIG to stop paying "retention bonuses" as long as they were being supported by taxpayer dollars.
It represented a milestone for Lincoln in his effort to insert an antislavery agenda in the war to preserve the Union.
WASHINGTON -- Two top veterans groups have come out against a Senate GOP effort to insert an Iran sanctions amendment into an unrelated veterans bill, putting the party at odds with a constituency that leans Republican.
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.
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 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.
