Sentence examples for misplaced efforts from inspiring English sources

In their misplaced efforts to be kind, residents have likely put themselves and cassowaries at risk.

The International Imitation Hemingway Competition was created in 1977 to publicly acknowledge his influence and the comically misplaced efforts of lesser authors to imitate his style.

As we move forward in this adoption process and think harder about how our child will come to us and us to him/her, placing too much emphasis on any one thing, on the marketing of our family, feels like misplaced efforts.

Rep. José E. Serrano (D-N.Y). called Harris's amendment a misplaced effort by Republicans to appear tough on drugs.

Mr Tsang may have picked up on the theme or perhaps he is drawing on a vein of paternalism left over from Britain's colonial rule.But it also represents a misplaced effort at public relations.

A good but somewhat misplaced effort in my opinion.

It's a blunt, misplaced effort that undermines American taxpayers, threatens our energy security and causes irreparable damage to the environment.

And overshadowing the effort was the suspicion of misplaced effort: Pistols were used in 66% of gun homicides in 2011, yet they represent about 6% of the guns in Canada.

This actually sounds more like a misplaced effort at marketing to a bunch of folks who were already marketed out, but why is it that Sony always hits these ham-handed events whereas 360 and Nintendo either stay out the limelight completely or are greeted to waves of fanboy love?

Gibney has misplaced his efforts attempting to vindicate Spitzer.

Besides, the focus in the past few decades on encouraging a shift from home-based to institutional delivery will be misplaced if efforts to improve the quality of care a women receives in a health facility is not improved.