Sentence examples for embrace efforts from inspiring English sources

Last month, authorities on Mount Athos decreed that Esfigmenou's 117 monks were "schismatic" and told them to leave the monastery for refusing to embrace efforts by Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christianity, to improve relations with the Vatican.

According to columnist Linda Chavez, the way out for conservatives is to embrace efforts to reform immigration and advance a plan of their own.

Finally, we need to embrace efforts that seek to uncouple benefits from large employers so that it is easy for skilled professionals to have the same benefits that workers have enjoyed for decades.

While some men and boys embrace efforts towards gender transformation, others, from different walks of life, across many countries, oppose policies, politics and programmes seeking to change gender relations and masculinities.

Mr. Bacar embraced efforts to reunite the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, split in 1997 when Anjouan seceded from the federation of the chain of tiny volcanic islands off the east coast of Africa.

Overcoming months of bitter division, the United Nations Security Council delivered a diplomatic setback to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday, unanimously embracing efforts by Kofi Annan, the former secretary general, to negotiate a cease-fire in the year-old Syrian conflict, funnel aid to victims and begin a political transition.

And without a government that has a positive message, one that embraces efforts to secure peace and aggressively communicate with its allies in times of agreement and differences, Israel's image will continue to suffer.

Like scientific efforts to anticipate and curtail the threat (6 ), Smith's work confronts the pain of human and environmental catastrophe, embracing efforts to prevent it.

It embraces efforts toward cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary planning approaches whereby climate change is mainstreamed into sectoral polices thereby enhancing the integration process.

Clinton seems to support something like this — a fact sheet provided by her campaign says that she "will embrace bipartisan efforts for schools to share in the risk" — but the adviser I spoke with said she is still working out the details.

But many police chiefs have been reluctant to embrace such efforts.