Sentence examples for efforts to stretch from inspiring English sources

Baseball isn't playing any games, either, despite its management's best efforts to stretch the playoffs into Christmas-shopping season, so it occupies itself shuffling players around.

Muddying the humanitarian waters further are growing efforts to stretch countries' aid budgets to deliver national security objectives or fund responses to the global refugee crisis.

These extreme extraction processes are the fossil fuel industry's last-ditch efforts to stretch their global financial dominance as far into the 21st century as they possibly can.

The pop was the sound of a woman's inner thigh muscles ripping, the result of her personal trainer's overzealous efforts to stretch her out.

Now this is proving much harder to do.The suddenness of Mr Menem's conversion into a lame duck owes much to his injudicious efforts to stretch Argentina's constitution to allow him to run for an unprecedented third term.

But perhaps fittingly, given Mr. Jiang's efforts to stretch Communist doctrine to accommodate the ascendant capitalist class, the heroes included, along with the usual selfless party models, a senior executive from the Haier Group Company, the Chinese electrical appliances giant.

Consumers patronized discounters last month in an effort to stretch their buying power.

Driving normally, without making any special effort to stretch the gas supply, I used 5.120 gallons and averaged 48.1 m.p.g.

Such numbers, however, cannot measure the impact of Mr. Willes's effort to stretch the limits of the possible.

The gravel plan is part of the transportation department's effort to stretch its dollars while addressing congestion issues around the state.

Orangemen engaged in several flying pickets in Portadown in an effort to stretch the security forces, again as Mr Gracey had demanded.