Sentence examples for make determined efforts from inspiring English sources

Those of us who make determined efforts to understand and debate with religious believers might be too polite to admit it, but we often feel just as baffled.

The Trial Chamber stated that it was satisfied that Assigned Counsel would make determined efforts to discuss the presentation of Milošević's defence with him.

We do however recommend that future studies on the costs of cataract surgery make determined efforts to include this.

Although most people with suicidal ideation will not progress to suicidal attempt, the older adult is however more likely to make determined effort at progressing through to actual suicide using the most lethal methods compared to younger subjects [ 12].

The students here made determined efforts to remain upbeat.

He made determined efforts to break down trade barriers to Japanese goods in foreign markets.

From 1894 onward, the Muslim Turks made determined efforts to rid the Ottoman Empire of the Christian Armenians.

Some countries made determined efforts to resist the globalization of radio and to retain local culture on the air.

By the 1980s it was making determined efforts to join the political mainstream, making a series of alliances with the Wafd, the Labour and Liberal parties.

Vinas, from a middle-class Catholic Californian family, travelled to south-west Asia, sought out a contact in Lahore and made determined efforts to find al-Qaida.

He added: "The defendant made determined efforts to enter into an agreement to supply secret information to representatives of another country.