Sentence examples for odd effort from inspiring English sources

It's also an almost odd effort, given the plethora of already-built news-reading applications that exist for the iOS platform.

Taken as a singular event, ABC's odd effort wasn't that big of a deal and might not even warrant close scrutiny.

The end of this act of the drama has brought forth some odd efforts at writing the epilogue.

Those concerns, she writes, were aggravated by the "aggressive posture of China's representative" five months ago at the council's observers' meeting in Sweden.An odd-looking effort by a Chinese developer to build an "eco-golf course" and luxury resort on a 300 square km tract in Iceland's desolate north-east corner also aroused suspicions about China's strategic intentions in the region.

But when placed up against Mr Obama's speech to AIPAC later in the week, Mr Romney's assertions seem rather odd, and his effort to draw a contrast with the president rather weak.

So far Google is alone in leading the charge against Internet censoring which is odd, since censoring efforts would seem to affect tech firms on the whole.

How odd, because a real effort to make Chop Suey special can be detected in much else.

This is odd, given the massive effort the US, Britain, and other guarantors put into securing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended 22 years of civil war.

Philip Ball London SE22 As a male feminist of many years activity, arguing the case in meetings, writing on the subject, having plays produced, articles and letters to the media, I am disappointed with Catherine Bennett's seemingly supercilious rejection of my constancy and effort ("The odd neediness that makes a man a woman of the year", Comment).

Foreign workers are not uncommon for tech industry, but it is a little bit odd that the Kochs' effort to reshape U.S. politics is staffed with foreign labor.

That's odd: surely Francis Maude's efforts to cut Whitehall's bill for consultants has not resulted in their complete exclusion.