Sentence examples for made big efforts from inspiring English sources

He has made big efforts, too, to keep Portugal's place at the hub of some 200m-odd Portuguese-speakers, including Brazilians, around the world.

Colombia, where Mr Uribe kept the same, competent, education minister for eight years, and Chile have both made big efforts to expand pre-school education, for example.

Mali's government has made big efforts to irrigate farmland, largely thanks to loans from outfits such as the African Development Bank.

In the past decade Western leaders have made big efforts to right the wrongs of the past, above all by rewarding and encouraging better government.

Cities like Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka's jumping-off point for outdoor adventurers, and Vladivostok, a coastal city with upscale accommodations and cultural attractions like museums and theaters (right, a church on Vladivostok's waterfront), have made big efforts to encourage tourism.

Many have made big efforts to attend: one man had travelled 150km from Haryana state; a student had arrived from rural Maharashtra; another had arrived from Patna, in distant Bihar.

Since then American officials have made bigger efforts to halt the southward flow of guns and money to the drug industry.

End of the Day Left to do the showing up alone, Ms. Schairer makes big efforts.

We have to make big efforts, but there are enough companies ready for the task," Flasbarth said.

Other automakers are also making big efforts to increase sales in China, from Volkswagen, the market leader, to DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor, Toyota, Honda and Nissan.

Within the euro zone, Ireland is being hailed for making big efforts to get costs down, much more so than Spain or Greece.