Sentence examples for first effort to make from inspiring English sources

"A Simple Plan" is his first effort to make an altogether mainstream movie.

Besides increasing his popularity, power and even election-winning potential – Escobar was elected to Colombia's house of representatives for a brief period in 1982, before his associations with drug trafficking had him expelled – Medellín Without Slums was the first effort to make change for the poor from within.

Gun violence costs Americans $100 billion a year, according to a new book by two economists that is the first effort to make a comprehensive estimate of the price the nation pays for criminal shootings, gun accidents and suicides committed with guns.

Disconnect Kids is not the first effort to make sites less tracking-invasive for younger users.

The first efforts to make an AIDS vaccine followed the traditional path, and set out to stimulate the immune system to make antibodies that would prevent infection.

But from the first efforts to make an atomic bomb in the early 1940's until the 1970's, much of the plutonium was not separated from wastes, and was instead dumped or buried.

The 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha memorably captured Terry Gilliam's doomed first efforts to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

She estimates that in the butterfly, it will take a 58.5-second effort to make the team, a second under her personal best.

The Spaniard threw himself at Riviere's first time effort to make a point-blank save after Fabricio Coloccini's header across goal.

The mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, has described the marathon, in its third year, as an effort to make his bitterly divided and contested city "normal".

This January, he did the same with Pakistan, in his third and most fruitful effort to make peace with India's neighbor.