Sentence examples for has spearheaded the effort from inspiring English sources

Over the weekend, I spoke with Wilglory Tanjong, a sophomore who is a member of Princeton's Black Justice League, which has spearheaded the effort to change the Woodrow Wilson School's name.

"China needs a modern civilization and globalization," said Zhu Mingde, director of Renji Hospital here and one who has spearheaded the effort to get the brain death standard onto the legislative agenda.

… #4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system.

Ruth Hoffman, who has spearheaded the effort to bring together the team from Langley, British Columbia, and the Rev. John Foundation team from Kampala, said $78,000 had been raised in an online campaign and $43,000 more had been pledged for the trip.

Brian Tobin, director of Iceni, the small drugs charity that has spearheaded the effort, working with all the sex workers in Ipswich, describes the set of circumstances in the town as "pretty unique", acknowledging that the killings themselves - one sixth of the town's prostitutes were murdered - were critical in persuading the women and the relevant agencies to work together.

The Kavli Foundation has spearheaded the effort to develop and promote the project, along with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which all support neuroscience research.

In the past Shihab has helped popularize the spatial-temporal receptive field (STRF) as a measure of cortical activity, and has spearheaded the efforts to do neural decoding, reconstructing audio from neural spikes.

It is, of course, no coincidence that it is Ashdown, Clegg, Cable and their colleagues who have spearheaded the effort, within parliament, to expose and frustrate Murdoch's ambitions to dominate the British media.

… Jefferson County Mental Health has spearheaded the counselling effort, making sure victims receive the assistance they need.

The DCMS committee has spearheaded the international effort to hold Facebook to account for its role in a string of major data scandals, joining forces with similarly concerned committees across the world, as part of an already wide-ranging enquiry into the democratic impacts of online disinformation that's been keeping it busy for the best part of this year.

Outgoing Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter has spearheaded the union effort among players, comparing the NCAA to a "dictatorship".