Sentence examples for hurried effort from inspiring English sources

All that could be attempted was a hurried effort to collect shipping, bring barges from Germany and the Netherlands, and give the troops some practice in embarkation and disembarkation.

But few people were aware of the Port Authority deadline until recently, prompting a hurried effort in the past week, via phone calls and e-mail messages, to get the word out.

As my colleagues Kareem Fahim and David Kirkpatrick report from Cairo, Tahrir Square was filled with protesters again on Friday as opponents of President Mohamed Morsi, "galvanized and angered by his unexpected and hurried effort to pass Egypt's new constitution," returned to the streets.

Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, the tailor' s widow, having struggled up from under the ruins of her house after the explosion, and seeing Myeko, the youngest of her three children, buried breast-deep and unable to move, crawled across the debris, hauled at timbers, and flung tiles aside, in a hurried effort to free the child.

The hurried efforts by Democrats to find more powerful media voices come after years of carping but little action.

But amid the hurried efforts to write new laws, end some censorship of the media, release hundreds of political prisoners and woo foreign investors, there have been signs of fissures in the reform process.

It also suggests that many Iraqi leaders were unable to make it out of the country before the American military took control of the capital, and that they made hurried efforts to hide in the city itself.

This new generation represented the beginning of the industry's recovery from its hurried efforts to comply with regulatory changes, and laid the foundation for powerful and efficient cars that became available as the automobile entered its second century.

"We will finish strong!" But some Iraqis have compared the current hurried reconstruction effort to the haphazard American withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.

Until we learn, collectively and individually, that there are no shortcuts to what we value in life, least of all to our mental wellness, we will likely continue to feel the effects of our hurried, half-baked efforts.

The cancellation of the hearing by the Appropriations Committee was announced just after Mr. DiFrancesco held hurried meetings with Assembly Republican leaders in an effort to salvage the bill.