Sentence examples for first efforts to from inspiring English sources

The Mahars' first efforts to protect Katie were more primitive.

Obama's first efforts to engage China were rebuffed for similar reasons.

The 1870 defeat by a much more fertile Prussia led to first efforts to encourage childbirth.

The agency's first efforts to get aid quickly to people were marked by missteps and delays.

The internationalization of his collection was impressive, especially compared with his first efforts to show in Paris in 2009.

The field's origins date back more than a century, to the first efforts to quantify the psychological properties of sound.

The first efforts to compel the government to buy American goods go back to the Great Depression.

It was six years before he felt able to work again, but his first efforts to do so were half-hearted.

Kashmiris are eyeing events not far away, in Afghanistan, where 2011 could mark the start of the first efforts to withdraw NATO soldiers.

The recent success of social networking companies like MySpace and Facebook came about a decade after the first efforts to create social networking companies had failed.

"Our first efforts to map global transit locations include 16 international airports, over 50 train and subway stations, and even a cable car station in Hong Kong".