Sentence examples for sponsored an effort from inspiring English sources

The lawmakers who sponsored an effort to rein in risky trading on Wall Street are now urging regulators to finalize a forceful version of the Volcker Rule by the summer.

In 2003 RTMark sponsored an effort to collect a list of product barcodes that could be replaced with others that code for less-expensive items, giving consumers the ability to set their own prices on various products.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)., who co-sponsored an effort with Lee earlier this year to end U.S. support for the Saudi campaign in Yemen, also said on ABC's "This Week" that he thought more lawmakers would line up behind such an effort after Khashoggi's killing.

Now, House Democrats are sponsoring an effort to expand the deduction to $500.

Why, Mountain View, Calif., of course, the home of Google, which is sponsoring an effort to encourage businesses to offer Web sites that work well for mobile devices.

He and his older brother, James, sponsor an effort that reaches from the corridors of power in Washington to the back alleys of Pakistani border towns.

AIPAC is now sponsoring an effort to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority, on the grounds that Abbas's efforts to force Hamas to join a unity government make him complicit with the group.

The group asked the Department of Defense (DoD) to sponsor an effort to create a common business language.

These modes of operating are straight from the shadow elite playbook: titles and names are empty or misleading, and it's often difficult to establish who or what is sponsoring an effort.

The Festival of Children Foundation is co-sponsoring an effort this weekend to set the record for "most cards written for the troops in one afternoon," according to a news release.

For the past year or so, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have sponsored a structured effort, with U.S. and Turkish backing, to funnel weapons — mainly light armaments like rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and ammunition — to select rebel groups.