Sentence examples for puzzling effort from inspiring English sources

As it was, his puzzling effort was worth just $60,000 to his co-owners, Carl Grinstead and Ben Rochelle.

Mr. Unger does an impressive job of reporting this admittedly puzzling effort to shepherd Saudis out of the country even as the investigation into the attacks was just beginning.

The accord Wednesday also comes at a time when China's designs on its North Atlantic ally have been put under a microscope, after the construction of an outsize Chinese Embassy in Reykjavik, and the puzzling effort of a Chinese billionaire to build a luxury hotel and golf course in a vast Icelandic wilderness area.

While a great deal of media time and energy is spent discussing the latest translation of War and Peace or the artwork in the refurbished St Pancras station, there has been, with a few notable exceptions, a puzzling lack of effort when it comes to something as critical as expressing support for an increasingly demonised minority in our society.

I didn't want answers from art, I wanted mysteries – ones worth the effort of puzzling over.

It is, although Lily's solo effort contains puzzling lyrics such as, "Who gave you melons?", the correct answer to which is "Africa and southwest Asia, actually".

The effort was puzzling to Kennedy, who starts Saturday and is 0-2 with a 9.64 E.R.A. "You kind of think, I just did it, why did I go back to where I was in my first start?" Kennedy said.

But neither I nor most economists are going to make the effort of puzzling through difficult writings unless we're given some sort of proof of concept — a motivating example, a simple and effective summary, something to indicate that the effort will be worthwhile.

You may have found the names mentioned to spearhead this effort slightly more puzzling, though.

Many people involved in the rebuilding effort were left puzzling over the state's intentions when Charles A. Gargano, the state's chief development executive and vice chairman of the Port Authority, expressed support for Mr. Silverstein's plans to begin construction of 7 World Trade Center in June when he spoke at a Feb. 7 planning conference.

At other times its efforts have been puzzling, such as the creation of cartoon superheroes to represent various BlackBerry users.