Sentence examples for its initial effort from inspiring English sources

Two federal monitors commended the police force last week for its initial effort.

Earlier this month, Microsoft failed in its initial effort to have Office Open XML ratified as a global technical standard by the International Organization for Standardization in Geneva.

The most recent setback for G.M. has been in its initial effort to tap into the market for sport utilities based on car designs, like Honda Motor's Honda CR-V CR-V and Toyota Motorxus RX 300 and Toyota Highlander.

How much that is due to officially sponsored awareness of the risks is a moot point, but it would be a brave commentator who claimed that money spent on promoting such awareness was money wasted.In the case of BSE, by contrast, the government invested much of its initial effort in talking the crisis down.

And briefings on some significant strategy shifts — such as Jolla gunning hard to build a BRICs OS licensing business for Sailfish and subsequently deciding to split the company into two, putting its initial effort into the OS basket — came from its board chairman, Antti Saarnio, rather than Dillon.

Having failed in its initial effort to buy Time Warner Cable , Charter Communicationsnow wants to take over the company's board of directors.

With its capital raise and the launch of the program, Thrun's Udacity hopes to regain some of the luster that it lost when it rolled out its initial efforts in conjunction with universities and an especially a rocky 2013.

Last year the startup stepped away from the device-making side of its business, splitting into two and saying it was focusing its initial efforts on the OS — with only a vague plan to establish another entity to continue to build devices.

Mr. Volcker's panel is focusing its initial efforts on allegations that United Nations officials benefited illegally from the program.

According to Melton, the Institute will focus its initial efforts on five disease categories: Diabetes, and disorders of the neurological, cardiovascular, blood, and musculoskeletal systems.

In fact, the investigation began only in 1980, and its initial efforts failed because of the deaths of most of the control animals, those that consumed no fluorides.