Sentence examples for in an effort to transform from inspiring English sources

The buyer spent $100 million on gutting and renovating the property in an effort to transform it into a first-class office building.

In part, the administration is demonising insurers in an effort to transform the new health law from an electoral liability into an asset.

In the late 1980's, Gov. Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey increased financing for Rutgers in an effort to transform it into a major research institution.

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 16 — Sun Microsystems has developed a novel "data center in a box" in an effort to transform the fundamental economics of corporate computing.

A recent ABC press release crows about giving participants "a truly Cinderella-like experience by changing their looks completely in an effort to transform their lives and destinies, and to make their dreams come true".

"Extreme Makeover", a popular reality show on American TV, that promises "a truly Cinderella-like experience by changing your looks completely in an effort to transform your life and destiny, and to make your dreams come true".

He compared the situation to America's involvement in Lebanon in the 1980s, "when a regional ally, Israel, pulled us into a failed state in a quixotic effort to transform a hostile neighbor into a pliant ally".

Mr. Vajpayee's peace foray is being hailed in New Delhi as another step in an visionary effort to transform India's foreign policy and global image.

Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for about $7.2 billion, in an audacious effort to transform Microsoft's business for a mobile era that has largely passed it by, Nick Wingfield reports.

Egged on by national populist media and cynical local politicians, they are more comfortable voting for a brand of intolerance and xenophobia than putting in the effort to transform the area through civic and community action.

I was, in those days, still setting my own spongy curls on jumbo toilet-paper rolls in a futile effort to transform mohair into corn silk, and, reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," I had been humbled to learn about the more extreme mortifications practiced by black people in order "to look 'pretty,' " as Malcolm puts it, "by white standards".