Sentence examples for sensible efforts from inspiring English sources

Why, for that matter, block sensible efforts to encourage fuel-efficient cars and cleaner energy sources?

Vested National party interests are poisoning the debate over free-range labelling and curtailing sensible efforts to introduce labelling reform.

The Obama administration is making other sensible efforts to stem the crime flows: checking southbound rail cars at the border for illegal guns, money and other contraband; helping Mexico battle the cartels; sharing more information among American law-enforcement agencies.

But Republican leaders can't do that, of course: they refuse to admit that taxes ever need to rise, and they spent much of the last two years screaming "death panels!" in response to even the most modest, sensible efforts to ensure that Medicare dollars are well spent.

Moreover, companies that make sensible efforts to comply will be better run, and will provide better investments for investors.

Obama has ignored sensible efforts by Saudi Arabia to broker a cease-fire and work toward a coalition government in Afghanistan.

This is both a recognition of Wal-Mart's importance in music sales and a sensible effort to keep the Billboard charts from becoming irrelevant.

Mrs. Clinton's attempt to reset relations with Russia, though far from successful, was a sensible effort to improve interactions with a rivalrous nuclear power.

But Stahl needs Fatty's fall to come with a thud, so he makes the sensible effort to create an at least semi-golden age of Hollywood high jinks through which his ur-Belushi can first disport himself.

Still, the administration's efforts won praise from William L. Kovacs, a vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who said the memorandum was a "reasonable, sensible" effort to avoid so-called midnight rules.

Of course, Mr. McNamara was right, and it was in part his confidence in this sensible effort at reform that blinded him to the need for a change in strategy in Southeast Asia.