Sentence examples for slight effort to from inspiring English sources

In between, when it makes a slight effort to move your luggage in the direction you wish to go, albeit at a third the pace at which you could carry the donkey and the luggage yourself, you will fawn on it, pat the soft fringe coming down over its nose, and whisper sweet quadruped nothings in its ear.

At that point the car will not do any thing, except make a slight effort to start.

Fortuyn never made the slightest effort to hide the fact that he was gay.

We choose to suck up every last drop of oil rather than make even the slightest effort to conserve.

However, they have never made the slightest effort to be friendly — even to reciprocate simple gestures like smiles or waves.

Johnson has never made the slightest effort to conceal his debt to Mies or his use of specific details from the Farnsworth house.

They are now aware that there has in fact been a breach of security … My guess is that they will not make the slightest effort to discipline the mole".

But the undeniable truth is that if I had made even the slightest effort to look outwards at these children, instead of inwards, I could have changed everything that happened," she tells us at one point.

He has made not the slightest effort to resolve this clear conflict.Why so little concern in Italy?There are historical reasons why so many Italians are unswayed by the case for keeping Mr Berlusconi out of high office.

Rather, Greg's very notion of self, as outlined in the script by Jesse Andrews (adapting his own novel), is so blank as to empty the film nearly before it starts, yet so cluttered as to stifle the slightest effort to discover him.

Pyongyang warns that North Korea will strike out if the regime detects the "slightest" effort to target what it called "the supreme nerve center".