Sentence examples for harmed efforts from inspiring English sources

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.

Earlier this year, Mr. Mandela's successor, President Thabo Mbeki, drew widespread criticism when he expressed interest in a theory that poverty and malnutrition caused AIDS, rather than H.I.V. Health care workers expressed fear that his comments had harmed efforts to discourage people from risky sexual behavior.

Some believe the demonstrations have harmed efforts to raise awareness about police brutality in the Black community; others see recent actions as the start of a righteous uprising among oppressed people.

In the religious sphere, disputes between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church occasionally harmed efforts at cooperation with the Latins; however, Manuel was almost certainly the Byzantine emperor who came closest to healing the breach between the two churches.

Obama has proposed a similar freeze and his administration has been highlighting the deficit in the wake of the run on Greek debt -- a posture that has harmed efforts to get spending through Congress by creating a climate of fear around the debt.

While the coalition has done an admirable job of raising awareness, it has also hampered aid-delivery groups, discredited American policy makers and diplomats and harmed efforts to respond to future humanitarian crises.

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

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.

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.