Sentence examples for strenuous efforts in from inspiring English sources

I then made strenuous efforts in London in order to promote this idea but other events occurred which made my activity there most difficult.

The Republican Party has made strenuous efforts in recent years to prevent Democrats from voting, and to prevent their votes from being properly counted once they've been cast.

By this time, the leadership at Chevron may have come to regret Texaco's strenuous efforts, in the nineties, to move the lawsuit out of the U.S. Chevron representatives now expressed alarm at the dire state of the Ecuadoran judiciary, likening due process in the country to what one might find in North Korea.

For the most part, the cease-fire held, and after months of strenuous efforts, in January of this year, the American Ambassador here, Peter W. Galbraith, working with his Russian counterpart and United Nations negotiators, came up with a proposal on the Krajina's political status.

After strenuous efforts in the face of wet weather, the road was opened on 15 December.

Refinements of supportive care of patients with severe sepsis have decreased their overall mortality, but no adjuvant drug therapy has emerged despite strenuous efforts in the field.

There is a strenuous effort, in certain conservative circles, to take it seriously.

Rhodes, who wanted both annexed by the Cape Colony, resigned in protest in March 1885 and thereafter devoted strenuous efforts, both in Cape Town and London, to securing the transfer of the colony to the Cape.

There will be no opening ceremony, the guest list remains secret, and strenuous efforts are in place to ensure that rival delegates are never in the same room.

Bill Belichick no doubt approves of his strenuous efforts to stay in shape.

At the time of his death, the Edmonton Bulletin praised Cameron for his efforts in establishing the foundations of the city Edmonton, and remarked that "the city owes much to him because of his strenuous efforts with others in maintaining this as the permanent site for the city".