Sentence examples for erratic efforts from inspiring English sources

The cables show alarm and concern, in both the United States and Japan, about the Hatoyama government's often clumsy and erratic efforts to lessen Japan's postwar dependency on the United States and to flirt with closer ties to China.

While widely accepted as necessary, land reform in Zimbabwe has struggled to yield significant gains for the country's ordinary people, hindered by the erratic efforts of the government and the sometimes slow pace of international assistance.

In this erratic effort there is a kind of benediction.

The pitching was a marked difference from the erratic effort Friday night of Kei Igawa, who was hit hard during his season debut in a 6-5 Detroit victory.

He's making erratic breathing efforts, and looks ashen.

McCain Parachutes into Temperament Narrative">erratic behavior and erratic campaign.

Mr. Corzine, for his part, has been somewhat erratic in his efforts to put some distance between those party figures and himself.

The game was an unsightly jumble of misguided baserunning, shallow effort, erratic throws, oblivious fielding, injuries, plays that should have been called errors and one actual error — and that was just the Marlins' output.

Each time the city came together to rebuild, but many leaders acknowledge that the efforts were erratic at times and relatively short-lived.

If it is erratic, it will undermine your efforts.

The missteps and mistakes — by offense and officials, even by coaches — could not undo the best effort the Steelers' erratic defense has had, and against the best opponent it has faced.