Sentence examples for efforts to modify from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama has also called for federal agencies to work more closely with the states on efforts to modify mortgages.

The recent federal tax rebates and efforts to modify more loans have also helped somewhat, analysts say.

Those second-lien mortgages have to be renegotiated separately, a step that often complicates efforts to modify the primary loans.

The banks frequently portray settlement-related activities as only a fraction of their broader efforts to modify troubled loans.

And, although he supports the spirit of the states' efforts to modify daylight-saving time, he doesn't see any of them making a difference.

Instead, the city seemed to shelve efforts to modify the consent decree, which is the bedrock of the city's right to shelter the truly homeless.

Someone without any overt chaos in his life accepted his state of homelessness without the least effort to modify it.

Mr. Lieberman has questioned the White House's effort to modify the sections of the Clean Air Act on coal-burning power plants.

When he first arrived in Washington in 2007, Mr. Millard began an effort to modify the agency's investment strategy.

American geneticist and biochemist J. Craig Venter led an effort to modify the genes of microbes to secrete oil.

A lawyer for the original plaintiffs in the Handschu case, Jethro M. Eisenstein, said that what police officials were describing as an effort to modify the consent decree actually seemed like an effort to undo it.