Sentence examples for gentle efforts from inspiring English sources

The IMF will also take stock of its gentle efforts to reform itself.

It's a great choice, even if I'm slightly disappointed that my gentle efforts to sway the vote to Len Deighton came to nothing.

Instead, he gingerly side-stepped the gentle efforts of some senators to illuminate his personal views on a variety of policy matters now before the agency, from what to do about potential conflicts of interest among investment houses and their analysts, to whether to retain or scrap Regulation FD. "I am not coming in with a notion of overturning decisions that have already been made," he said.

In a gentle effort to remedy the situation, my parents signed me up for judo classes, which were held a couple of times a week in a cafeteria at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights.

Uncertain how to react to this bit of Israeli political warfare being staged in its territorial waters, the Egyptian Navy circled the vessels with inflatable motorboats in a gentle effort to get them away from each other and, ultimately, back into Israel, less than a nautical mile away.

Anything more than a gentle effort is counterproductive.

— Jeff Gordinier The New York Times: New York City's proposed limits on soft drinks may seem draconian, but its gentler efforts to improve residents' eating habits have largely bombed.

"When you have only one side of the story, immigrants, women and aborigines aren't going to have an investment in it".Australia is a country where a relatively gentle (by world standards) effort to reimpose a sort of national ideology looks destined to fail.

The trigger has a key role when assessing the twitch mouth pressure (Tw Pmo), since a "gentle" inspiratory or expiratory effort is needed for triggering to ensure an open glottis during twitch, but which also guaranties only very mild changes of transdiaphragmatic pressure following changes in lung volume.

Still, the skiers' efforts have been gentle, for New York.

Through his deep knowledge of the criminal justice system and reform efforts and his gentle but probing questions, Dan contributed to the board's deliberations, our staff's work--and justice.