Sentence examples for main effort was from inspiring English sources

"My main effort was to sell the Council to American Catholics," he said.

But his main effort was directed toward expanding the Duchy of Saxony, especially in the lands beyond the Elbe.

In this study, the main effort was to determine the effects of the extruder's operating conditions on the physical, mechanical and chemical properties of corn/PVA extrudates.

Mondale's liabilities include: Carter, interest group support and the aura of "old liberal" Mondale's main effort was to raise questions in the voters' minds about Hart, to try to slow the rush to him.

The mission of the American troops here has been to prevent the city from falling again into the insurgents' hands and to partner with Iraqi forces, while the main effort was focused on stabilizing Baghdad.

Although a pupil might learn to read aloud, or rather to intone his text, his main effort was to learn by heart fragment after fragment of the sacred Law.

"The main effort is now being concentrated on the Raba and the Danube.

Mr. Vick insists, though, that his main effort is not to interpret the work but to propel it.

His main effort is adding hundreds of new coal plants, which have contributed to near-apocalyptic pollution levels across large swaths of the country.

President Obama says America's main effort is in Iraq but unless it can rebuild the Iraqi army then it will be near impossible to defeat Isis there.

Our main effort is to achieve real-time performance by implementing in hardware the most time-consuming parts of the compression algorithm.