Sentence examples for quiet efforts from inspiring English sources

Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch's Washington director, recently returned from Bahrain and praised the administration's quiet efforts to force the government there to seek a peaceful solution.

That is both a tribute to the quiet efforts of labor statesmen like the late Peter Brennan and a reflection of generational discontinuities.

They have struggled to be heard, with the young men sharpening machetes grabbing more headlines than the executives' quiet efforts to wage peace.

In the interview after his release last week, he called the siege a tragedy that scuttled quiet efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.

Soon, through Mr. Fujita's persistent and quiet efforts, the government of Japan may finally invite a handful of aging American POWs to Japan.

Several European governments doubt the usefulness of new threats to bomb Serbia, arguing instead for quiet efforts to shore up Montenegro's own security forces.But in whose name does the ICG speak, and seek to fix policy for democratically elected governments?

I suspect there is a quiet effort behind the scenes to negotiate their release.

States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.

Some Palestinian experts said it appeared that senior officials had made a quiet effort to calm the streets.

In a letter, he explained, "Quiet effort is much more satisfactory in every way than that which carries around a 'brass band' to accomplish its results".

His rough beginning has led to a quiet effort by senior Republican officials from past administrations — including Henry A. Kissinger, Ms. Rice and Robert M. Gates, a former defense secretary — to reach out with advice.