Sentence examples for initial effort at from inspiring English sources

Obama also made an initial effort at bipartisanship in his judicial selections.

The courses in computer-aided design that he finished last year in his initial effort at retraining failed to lead to employment.

Typically, it was N'Doye whose debut effort ended a sequence of nine defeats and a draw when he forced home a loose ball from a 72nd-minute free-kick, after Guzan had blocked his initial effort at the base of his post.

In the Times piece, Weinstein made an initial effort at damage control by partly acknowledging what he had done, saying, "I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it".

As an initial effort at a scale integrated framework, this frees us to focus on the coupling of structure and agency first, before enriching subcomponent process detail.

Maybe that's why the Post's initial efforts at damage control proved so inadequate.

Chapter 2 is the post-Assad transition, and initial efforts at stabilization.

My colleague Bettina Wassener has written extensively about the daunting issue and some of the initial efforts at remediation.

Initial efforts at replacing the Salmonella assay for ambient air studies with some emerging technology should be initiated.

As they had made their fortunes through innovation and market forces — like personal computing or investment — their initial efforts at philanthropy tended to try to bypass government.

Perry's initial efforts at mainstream stardom were fruitless, with two separate record labels signing and subsequently dropping her before any material was released.