Sentence examples for lavish efforts from inspiring English sources

They say it distorts the local economy and undermines longstanding if less lavish efforts to create a workable local government.

As she observed about his lavish efforts to appease her during her pregnancy, "not too bad, considering I was sleeping in my car a few years ago".

The short-lived fifties trend toward full renderings of space, like earlier 3-D experiments and today's lavish efforts, suggests the desire not to better reproduce the material world but to delve deeper into inner life.

There is the usual and predictable outrage in the British papers and on the radio today about the latest figures for teenage pregnancy which has become a bit more common at the last count, and which, despite the government's best and lavish efforts, remains much more prevalent in Britain than in most of continental Europe (though less so than in America).

A lavish effort to win over foreign opinion stokes, rather than quells, suspicions.

(In a typically lavish effort, Bush's super PAC, Right to Rise, mailed out digital-video players loaded with a documentary to supporters).

The former Monty Python star, whose new lavish effort, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, premiered in London last night, claims he's dis-illusioned by the efforts of today's major film-makers.

The mayor's job was a plum — the central government was pouring billions into reviving its coastal cities — and Mr. Bo oversaw a lavish effort to remake Dalian, a graceful but rundown seaport, in the image of Hong Kong.

Carriers are also lavishing effort on each new product.

The company introduced a lavish campaign describing its efforts to clean up the gulf, but spent little on ads explaining to the public that its station owners were independently owned businesses with only an inadvertent connection to the disaster.

Radio Netherlands and Amsterdam University are refining a proposal for an early-warning system that would pick up hate-speech broadcasts, including cryptic ones, and at least mitigate their effects.But Jan Hoek, who runs the global arm of Radio Netherlands, says he has grown cautious about lavish Western efforts to promote "good" media in places like Rwanda where radio was used for evil ends.