Sentence examples for reverse efforts from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, Ma moved to reverse efforts by his predecessor to build a distinct sense of Taiwanese identity.

Open Internet advocates said they hoped Obama would reverse efforts to impose restrictive copyright standards in trade pacts that threaten the Web.

For-profit college companies like Apollo are apparently looking to Trump to reverse efforts by Obama to hold colleges accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse -- because their schools are the ones that keep running afoul of the rules.

19 There is also concern that the visibility of e-cigarettes in places where the marketing or use of tobacco has been banned may reverse efforts to denormalise smoking as a strategy to reduce the uptake of smoking.

It helps to know the novel, since the artistic techniques Lewis uses are, in a sense, interpretations, ekphrasis in reverse, efforts to come up with a visual form to correspond to the literary form Joyce uses in each chapter.

He built his business reputation by reversing efforts to transform Alcoa into something more than an aluminum company, instead refocusing on the core business and engaging in ruthless cost-cutting.

And he claims that Magna Carta guaranteed Scotland's survival as an independent state by reversing efforts by John to assert feudal overlordship of the kingdom.

The philosopher Alan Watts called this "the law of reverse effort".

Much of the hearing focused on federal control over public lands, as Republican senators urged Zinke to reverse conservation efforts carried out by President Barack Obama.

As the Ohio Environmental Council warned the Governor of this assault, "Weakening Ohio's standard will increase energy costs for all ratepayers and reverse your efforts to enhance the competitiveness of Ohio's manufacturers through industrial efficiency".

Shortfall either in funding, motivation or staff support can reverse initial efforts.