Sentence examples for first effort to change from inspiring English sources

The reform proposal presented to Parliament last week by Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, is far from perfect but represents a reasonable first effort to change a law regarded as so unfair that it has been condemned by the United Nations.

If, that is, you have learned some of the lessons from your first term and make a sincere effort to change what needs to be changed in your second.

He praised the plan as a significant first step in the state's effort to change the way it manages child welfare.

The Senate Democrats are the first political caucus to hold up an effort to change an already adopted budget.

He failed in an effort to change the Constitution to enable him to run for a third term.

He is a devout liberal who winced at the mayor's effort to change term limits to allow himself to run for a third term, friends say.

The ads appeal directly to voters, encouraging them to oppose any effort to change the 15-year-old law, which was reaffirmed in a second referendum in 1996.

In an effort to change, he turned to church restoration.

So, I remember thinking, why make any effort to change?

So, a laudable effort to change our perceptions of beauty?

Labor made no effort to change the package, he says.