Sentence examples for expended considerable effort from inspiring English sources
It took him about ten minutes to make the trip each time, a delay sufficiently irritating that Obama's assistant expended considerable effort to avoid it.
Columbia coaches, alumni and administrators have expended considerable effort trying to figure out how the university can maintain at least modest success in a high-profile sport like football.
By this time, Richardson had already expended considerable effort on trying to get Asylum, Patrick McGrath's novel about events in a psychiatric hospital modelled on Broadmoor in the 1950s, translated to the cinema screen.
The festival has always expended considerable effort in getting a major Hollywood film to kick off proceedings, but in the last two years it has excelled itself: 2014 saw Birdman open the festival, and the year before that Gravity.
Schlick expended considerable effort discussing the differences between intuitive acquaintance and conceptual knowledge, insisting that, even though intuitive images are real, acquaintance with them does not constitute knowledge.
Almost immediately rumours circulated that ministers had expended considerable effort trying to get the NFU on side ahead of the announcement.
While his country has expended considerable efforts to develop vaccines and medicines, at no time was it exploring biological weapons, Mr. Castro said.
French environmental authorities have expended considerable efforts to research sediment remediation strategies and development of sediment quality guidelines designed to protect the health of humans consuming Rhône River fish.
For its part, Amazon continues to expend considerable effort both to dominate this small, fragile market and to win the hearts and minds of readers.
It is keeping us safe from unruly cocker spaniels now, as well as school bullies -- or, at least, expending considerable effort telling us that it is keeping us safe.
