Sentence examples for start efforts from inspiring English sources

With just a few weeks before the tour was scheduled to start, efforts to get American visas for replacement members of the band proved unsuccessful.

A poll released Sunday showed that he will start efforts to sway the legislature on his gun-control package with broad public support for that measure, as well as for restricting the sale of assault weapons.

It also served to jump start efforts within the U.S. government that are often hamstrung by bureaucracy and internal politics; one year to shutter the detention facility was a tall order from the start, but it helped U.S. policymakers needing the weight of the Oval Office to move things along.

Edelman, part of Daniel J. Edelman Inc., is publicizing elements of the campaign like the Go Project, through which Quaker Oats will donate food to Share Our Strength, and Go Grants, $500 stipends from Quaker to consumers to start efforts to fight hunger in local communities.

Obama said that in coming weeks he would "use whatever power this office" holds to start efforts to preventing further such tragedies.

Despite Head Start efforts, vast disparities in academic achievement related to the socioeconomic disadvantages of children continue to exist (Vinovskis, 1999).

This initiative will kick-start efforts to tackle this.

Wednesday's letter from consumer groups may jump-start efforts by the government to clarify its privacy rules for Internet providers.

Latinos and Democrats praised Mr. Obama for trying to jump-start efforts to pass the bill, which would grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.

To kick-start efforts to open up government information, the president will require each major federal agency to make two important government services available on mobile phones within the next 12 months.

The governor came into office promising to jump-start efforts to fix school buildings and provide more space for roughly 12,000 students who attend class in trailers statewide.