Sentence examples for made efforts at from inspiring English sources

Mr. Douglas's travails since his arrest, including episodes in which drugs were smuggled to him while he was incarcerated, have been tabloid fodder, something Howard Josepher, another of the brief's signees, said has probably made efforts at recovery harder.

Einer Elhauge, a professor of antitrust law at Harvard Law School, said Judge Jackson's decision on Wednesday had to be viewed in the context of his earlier findings, like holding that Microsoft intimidated competitors and made efforts at collusion.

The league had made efforts at halting the growth of goalie gear before, limiting the width of leg pads to 12 inches in 1998 and their length to 38 inches in 2003.

Although the United States has made efforts at reform, the group said it remained "extremely concerned" about the human rights situation of African-Americans.

This latest slide show from the White House -- tracking the President's marketing of the stimulus bill -- seeks to clearly demonstrate (and document) just how much Obama made efforts at bipartisanship.

Throughout the 1450s, the Crown continually made efforts at paying Percy his Warden's wages and fees promptly (paying him full wartime rates for the whole of the year 1456-7, for example), and since he was a loyal Lancastrian he achieved this more often than his counterpart on the west march, Salisbury, who by now had publicly aligned himself with York.

Small-holder farmers in Eastern Kenya are faced with the constraint associated with climate variability and have consequently made effort at local level to utilize adaptation techniques in their quest to adapt to climate variability.

During the day they make efforts at outreach, handing over food and sometimes cash to local people, many of whom return at night to shoot at them.

The chasm between the police and citizens in cities like Chicago and Baltimore is often described as cultural, and this has a way of making efforts at repair seem futile.

Others are making efforts at least to disclose their tax structures around the world: when ActionAid put questions about their tax haven companies to all FTSE100 companies, 15 responded with significant extra details.

The tech world is starting to make efforts, at least.