Sentence examples for explicit effort from inspiring English sources

One of the experts said it appeared to be an explicit effort to financially shield Joe Paterno.

Rent regulation is very likely to go away, eventually, even without any explicit effort to kill it.

And in December, the Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, agreed to buy an influential Hong Kong newspaper, The South China Morning Post, as part of an explicit effort to reshape media coverage of China.

He intends to pour more and more new Tory peers on to the red benches in an explicit effort to rebalance the second chamber – in which the government does not currently have a majority – in his party's favour.

"The discipline of gratitude," Father Nouwen wrote, "is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy".

The White House announcement was the most explicit effort yet to use the turmoil in the Middle East to press for what has become a symbolically vital part of its national energy plan.

He threw away all the explicit efforts at control.

Explicit efforts at integration, however such as English-only rules are controversial.

While some loopholes fit this description, others represent explicit efforts to provide special benefits, reflecting greater political priorities and intense lobbying efforts.

Surely President Bush and his advisers know that explicit efforts to encourage defections will only encourage hard-liners in Iraq to resist full cooperation with inspections.

The regulations mark the government's first explicit efforts to define the commercial uses for the horde of small, plastic, buzzing aircraft that are invading America's skies.