Sentence examples for peculiar effort from inspiring English sources

Mr Netanyahu ("Bibi" to Israelis) starred in an even more peculiar effort, turning up on the doorstep of a couple waiting for a baby-sitter.

Hostage is one of her more accessible, but no less peculiar efforts.

Peculiar efforts to branch out into new businesses never gain traction.

He then shifted to all-caps, without specifying to whom he was talking: "DO SOMETHING!" All week, Republican politicians and media figures, from the fringes to the establishment, had arranged themselves around a peculiar misdirection, an effort to relieve the heat from the President.

As Lincoln explained in his famous Cooper Union speech, "John Brown's effort was peculiar.

Since he holds that the power to act is always accompanied with the power to exert that power, it follows that the only entities that can have power are those who are capable of engaging in the peculiar sort of mental effort with which we are all familiar from our own case.

Last week, its CEO, Tim Armstrong, threw a tantrum that again prompted questions about where AOL might be heading, and about the peculiar nature of its efforts to get there.

While tRNA gene complements are usually reported in passing as part of genome annotation efforts, and peculiar features such as the tandem arrangements of tRNA gene in Entamoeba histolytica have been described in some detail, systematic comparative studies are rare and mostly restricted to bacteria.

It was most peculiar then, how their forward effort collapsed.

Animating their efforts is one of the most peculiar — in fact, downright perverse — aspects to the premeditation-versus-passion dichotomy in suicide.

The slave holding states certainly tried to conceal the full horrors of their "peculiar institution" but the evidence suggests that their efforts were not successful.