Sentence examples for expending too much effort from inspiring English sources

3 45 p.m. 5) AN ANCIENT PORT Perched on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean, the Tulum ruins — an ancient Mayan port city — are nonetheless small beer compared with those at Chichén Itzá (three hours away), but you can experience them in an hour, thus scratching a cultural itch without expending too much effort.

If Clinton had won Gottheimer would be a top target, but it's hard to see Republicans expending too much effort here.

Overdose's team decided he had expended too much effort to be allowed to run again.

Furthermore, CDDIS should not expend too much effort on the rather sterile race toward high impact factors but rather concentrate on providing, synergistically with CDD, a high-quality service to our contributors, readers and correspondents.

Don't expend too much effort on these suggestions.

Bigger may be better, since you don't want to expend too much effort in embellishing it only to find that it won't hold all of your collection.

Layard, a Labour member of the upper house, to argue against expending too much political energy on flattening inequalities.

He used only seven players and feared expending too much energy would leave the team sapped in the closing minutes.

When Ferris turns to slaying villains, however, he falters, expending too much ammunition on soft targets (Stalin, Robespierre) and straw men (Derrida).

This will get your circulation going without expending too much energy prematurely.

Like Hamlet, who spends his days gathering evidence for a crime everyone can see was clearly committed by his uncle, Occupy Chicago expends too much time and effort articulating the glaringly obvious inequity of America's economic system.