Sentence examples for sporadic efforts from inspiring English sources

Sporadic efforts were made to modify the one-child policy.

But the state made only sporadic efforts to track their performance.

Mr. Giuliani has made sporadic efforts, spending heavily on advertising here before pulling back.

Chisel these words on the tombstone of America's sporadic efforts at campaign-finance reform: "It's inappropriate.

Since 1907, when Theodore Roosevelt signed into law a ban on contributions by corporations and banks, Congress has made sporadic efforts to control the flow of big money.

The cartels also employ spies to keep track of the sporadic efforts of the Mexican military to search cars, law enforcement authorities say.

Students ignore this conventional wisdom at their peril: sporadic, effort-free "study" in novel contexts is assuredly less effective than genuine, effortful undistracted study.

In a sporadic effort to keep my brain from moldering, I've begun to memorize shorter poems — by Auden, Donne, Ogden Nash, and more — which I recite to myself some nights while walking my dog, Harry's successor fox terrier, Andy.

Sporadic trapping efforts continued to yield nought.

But these early measures were the sporadic, informal efforts of military commanders acting locally, and did not constitute the sort of consistent policy that would soon become essential.

After sporadic exploration efforts over the years, the big global energy firms had dismissed India as a barren place.Dhirubhai Ambani, who had started his working life in a lowly job with Shell in Yemen, disagreed.