Sentence examples for pointed efforts from inspiring English sources

But, Mr. Alton said, the city's pointed efforts to ignore Capone have been a boon to his business.

"It's not enough to build in a certain way," she said, especially without more pointed efforts to improve education and employment.

This is happening as a growing chorus of educators and officials at the Department of Education make pointed efforts to steer young women to STEM majors.

More directly, the key issues associated with actual ED visits, namely non-financial barriers, require more pointed efforts, considering that they pertain to accessibility of services (e.g., office hours) and limited everyday resources in one's personal life (e.g., transportation or child care).

Recently there have been pointed efforts to use government regulation to prod people toward self-regulating, based on the belief that if you present consumers with more and better information on the risks and consequences of their actions (better labeling of food; clearer information on mortgage documents), they will, in turn, make better choices.

"It has to be a very pointed effort to get work done," Ms. Figg said.

Mr. Schundler makes a pointed effort to portray himself as an advocate of good government and of the people.

At the end of Saturday's 2-1 comebatk at Watford the Italian made a pointed effort of embracing every player.

Like Borgore, McGuinness makes a pointed effort to arrange steady, real-life interaction with friends and family.

"I told him the benefits of a screw top over cork, plastic and glass, and about the cork shortage in New Zealand," she said, "and made a pointed effort to say that he knew nothing about wine.

As if to rescue Day from suspicion, the show's catalog makes a pointed effort to deflect a homosexual reading of his life and work, insisting that nothing specific about his proclivities has been documented, which is true.