Sentence examples for expensive effort from inspiring English sources

The federal government has mounted an extensive and expensive effort to repair housing.

Also that year, an expensive effort, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," failed to spawn a franchise.

We must now put effort and compromise – real sweaty, expensive effort and painful compromise – into dealing with the Syrian morass.

Endorsing an aggressive and potentially expensive effort to reduce carbon emissions will not win him friends on the right wing.

Mr. Schwartz halted all payments to the Frucher consultants and has moved on to a new expensive effort to save OTB.

The technology is part of an ambitious, expensive effort by the America's Cup Event Authority, the entity formed to handle all commercial aspects of the America's Cup competition.

That decline came despite expensive efforts to remain competitive.

Despite heroic (and expensive) efforts to keep up the numbers, circulation has fallen relentlessly.

It means that all his expensive efforts to smother the beating heart of the Eurosceptics have been brought to nothing.

If the poor countries do nothing, the rich countries argue, their own expensive efforts will be in vain.

Medical care is given to the terminally ill, and expensive efforts are made to extend their lives.