Sentence examples for failing effort from inspiring English sources

The U.S. would give up on the Bush Administration's failing effort to build a national unity government at the center of Iraq.

The lobby led a failing effort to block the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, which bars American investment in those oil-rich countries.

After a decade of false starts and shifting policies, perhaps no issue draws out the internal contradictions of the war effort as does the failing effort to tackle the opium trade, a business that enriches both America's enemies and allies.

This month, he was poised to issue a report labeling the investigation as a failing effort, a step that could have delayed Serbia's ambitions to join the European Union.

Because of the euro crisis, it has soared, to around 130,000 immigrants this year, forcing the Tories to squeeze non-EU immigration in a failing effort to keep their pledge.

See articlePresident George Bush said that NATO forces should be used to help the UN take over from the African Union in its failing effort to keep the peace in Sudan's ever-bloody western region of Darfur.

Nor were the billions the US poured into Afghanistan over the last decade meant as an alternative to failing efforts to build democracy; those spending the cash saw it as part of the same project, a way to bolster "fragile, reversible" gains.

The recent history of France is the history of reform efforts failing, particularly efforts to reform the labor market.

Does the president's plan merely expand the failing federal effort or does it focus on quality and reform?

But he deserves credit for energizing a lethargic command and putting in place the right strategy to turn around a failing war effort.

In July 1944, Eva rang Gertrude and told her she was lonely, with Hitler away a great deal in east Prussia directing the failing war effort.