Sentence examples for shaky efforts from inspiring English sources

In Libya, the revolution's promise has run up against shaky efforts — by clans, cities and various military forces that formed a loose coalition to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi — to come up with a working government.

The kidnapping underscored Russia's shaky efforts to establish control over Chechnya, which have been stepped up since the attack in Moscow last month in which Chechen gunmen seized more than 800 hostages at a performance of the musical "Nord-Ost".

And President Mohammad Khatami of Iran looked for support for his still shaky efforts at reform in a massive turnout by the overwhelmingly young electorate, who jammed polling stations.

In the opening lines the chorus even wonders if that stage would be adequate to depict King Harry's invasion of Agincourt and his shaky efforts to forge a future peace by marrying Katherine, daughter of the French king.

Yet this information is evidence that some people, in various places, everywhere in fact, work themselves and some unimaginable constituency into a lather, strike poses of indignation, mint watery sarcasms, make shaky efforts to amuse each other, inhabit a bubble of epiphenomena that popped for the rest of us quite a while ago.

Hammond's save bailed out another shaky effort by the Yankees' patchwork bullpen.

Debuts are usually memorable as extremes: the devastating fall that torpedoes a shaky effort, or the glorious performance that transforms a dancer into an artist.

Essentially, he caved in to pressure from energy interests, thereby casting further doubt on already shaky international efforts to combat global warming.That Mr Bush is not an avid green will surprise no one.

The marriage was one of those shaky dynastic efforts to patch together a peace (never for long) among warring powers: in this case the empire, the Papacy and Sicily, which then included all of southern Italy.

The execution last weekend of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a Shiite cleric and opposition figure in Saudi Arabia, has heightened the Saudi-Iran regional rivalry, threatening to derail already shaky peace efforts over the wars in Syria and Yemen.

In winning for the fifth time in a row, the Dodgers surmounted a shaky, brief effort from rookie starter Julio..