Sentence examples for harm efforts from inspiring English sources

The assessment could harm efforts by Western governments and Belarus to improve their often-strained relations.

The debate over the vote on the measure was as vitriolic as some here could recall, and they said it could harm efforts to seek consensus on Iran.

Critics predict that an arrest warrant will harm efforts to deliver aid and to deploy the United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Thursday of making a "dark and false" statement by calling Zionism a crime against humanity, a comment likely to harm efforts to repair ties between the countries.

Before he arrived on Sunday afternoon, a Palestinian official said that his side had agreed to a request from the secretary of state not to take any actions that could harm efforts to restart talks on an eventual two-state solution for a period of eight weeks.

The suspicion is that these powerful multinationals are using their influence in a (literally) unhealthy manner, and attempting to make the European Union agree to provisions that would seriously harm efforts to cut back on tobacco smoking across Europe – a large and profitable market for the cigarette makers.

This harms efforts by local operators to borrow money to fund excavation.

They argue that tolerating the use of coca harms efforts to suppress cocaine.

The ministry argued that by refusing to follow the law, Daimler was harming efforts to reduce global warming and was distorting competition in the auto market.

Two factors are harming efforts to stabilize Mali: the local struggle for power and AQIM's determination to harass not only French soldiers, but any other outside presence.

Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said that declining living standards since the economic downturn had harmed efforts to drive down obesity rates among the poor.