Sentence examples for imposed in an effort from inspiring English sources

A more punitive set of sanctions may be imposed in an effort to isolate Iran.

The cuts were imposed in an effort to close a $2.6 billion shortfall in the state's $8.9 billion budget for this year.

The sanctions announced by Mrs Clinton come on top of UN sanctions imposed in an effort to deflect the North from developing its nuclear arsenal.

More followed but money dried up in the early 1990s as sanctions were imposed in an effort to curb Islamabad's developing nuclear programme.

As a teenager he was arrested for using his high school's public-address system to call for a strike after martial law was imposed in an effort to quell the Solidarity movement.

Earlier the US state department organised an investment conference for American businesses coinciding with a deadline the Egyptian government imposed in an effort to shut down independent groups that promote civil society and human rights.

The United Nations Security Council acted unanimously to end the arms embargo against Yugoslavia, the last remaining international sanction imposed in 1998 in an effort to stop the Serbian campaign against Albanians in Kosovo.

The notice, which elaborated on an announcement made in September, relaxes a ban on the sale of consoles, which Beijing imposed in 2000 in an effort to protect children from what were perceived to be the corrupting influences of video games.

Great teams begin with great people, and then make managerial choices, often imposing constraints, in an effort to get the very most they can out of the talent that they have assembled.

In 1980, the Federal Reserve and the administration of Jimmy Carter imposed credit controls in an effort to slow inflation.

The general vehemently rejects suggestions from several historians that he was an opportunist, not a patriot, who cared more for his career than for the Polish nation, and that he imposed martial law in an effort to remain in power.