Sentence examples for stop efforts from inspiring English sources

Corporate lobbyists have been working feverishly to stop efforts to change the rules.

But the truth is, the exhibit is underwritten by big-time polluters, who are underground funders of action to stop efforts to deal with this threat to humanity.

The plaintiffs contend that a friend of Wayne Harris's had interceded to stop efforts to obtain a search warrant to look for more explosives.

You could decide to support a free press and stop efforts – here and, using your influence, with our friends in the UK – to restrain their work.

"The bill would stop efforts to protect the public but would expedite those that would help big corporations," said Gary Bass, a professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.

During this period, Felt had to stop efforts by others in the bureau to "identify every member of every hippie commune" in the Los Angeles area, or to open a file on every member of Students for a Democratic Society.

But powerful lobbies representing big ranchers and dairy farmers have stopped efforts in Congress in each of the last three years to prohibit slaughtering these animals for meat sold elsewhere.

OUCH: The forces behind a slew of lobbying activities aimed at stopping efforts to curb drug costs are not always clear.

But that has not stopped efforts that were already underway to shore up sections of the southern border in two Texas counties.

"The president has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples and believes strongly in stopping efforts designed to take rights away," said Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama's communications director.

The effort to deny Dan Gosling from close range was the pick of the bunch, but he also stopped efforts from Josh King and Matt Ritchie.