Sentence examples for rare efforts from inspiring English sources

His rare efforts to sound funny or populist seem forced.

From then on, he could be stirred mostly by rare efforts at subscription writing — an edition of Shakespeare, in 1765, and his "Lives of the Poets" series, in 1779, may be the most consistently entertaining works of criticism in English — which he approached in a deliberately offhand manner.

Although natural fluorination is rare, efforts in identifying new bio-fluorination machineries are continuing.

Rather shamefully, the man completely fluent in a hip-hop-edged English actually appeared impressed by that rare effort.

It was a rare effort as Frank Lampard and Emmanuel Petit combined to control the midfield and Gronkjaer threatened on the right.

This Article is a rare effort to combine comprehensive, national empirical studies of both appellate and trial court activity to support the assertion of changing legal doctrine.

The putative father of Greek skepticism, however, was Pyrrhon of Elis (c. 360 c. 272 bce), who undertook the rare effort of trying to live his skepticism.

Mr. Trump's forceful intervention was a rare effort by a new president to shape international events even before taking office.

The vote, conducted at an unusually contentious shareholders' meeting here, was a rare effort by investors to oust the management of a company and replace it with their own slate.

The resulting classroom turmoil led the State Department of Human Services to start an unusual experiment, paying some parents $100 a month in rent subsidies to help them stay put — a rare effort to address the damaging turnover directly.

To Review Case of U.S. Journalist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a rare effort to intervene in the justice system, urged Tehran's chief prosecutor to fairly examine the cases of an Iranian-American journalist and an Iranian-Canadian blogger.