Sentence examples for periodic effort from inspiring English sources

In the old days, when I was a kid, management moved swiftly and decisively to cut mostly low-level and support jobs in its periodic effort to cut costs.

NASA's Decadal Survey, a periodic effort by scientists to prioritize research for the next 10 years, found in 2007 that "[t]he U.S. government … should renew its investment in Earth-observing systems and restore its leadership in Earth science and applications".

Periodic efforts to restore the tax have failed.

Periodic efforts to ban rallies from the Maidan have brought mixed results.

The stern was spattered with blood, despite the boathand's periodic efforts to wash it off.

Periodic efforts by Washington hostesses to supplant the old steps with conga lines, line dancing and the hokeypokey have been unsuccessful.

It also offers a justification for the state's periodic efforts to crack down on, among others, Manhattan hotel concierges who bought scalped tickets for hotel guests.

The Bush administration made periodic efforts to warn Mr. Karzai that his own family's reputed links to corruption threatened his government.

It was annexed by Thailand in 1902, but there have been only periodic efforts to integrate it into the cultural and economic mainstream of the country.

There have been periodic efforts to overhaul Albany's campaign finance system, which is considered among the nation's weakest, including a push by Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007.

And there have been periodic efforts over the years to cleanse the tax code of breaks inserted to benefit particular industries, companies and even individuals.