Sentence examples for subtle effort from inspiring English sources

It's not as if this were a subtle effort.

But others glimpse a more subtle effort to liberalise Qatar's local culture.

Today, Payton defended himself with a subtle effort to explain the chancy nature of his assignment.

With their near-universal praise of "Blue Jasmine," which opens nationwide Friday, critics tended to walk right by Ms. Benzinger's subtle effort in the film.

Recently it was able to turn aside a not very subtle effort by the conservative clerics on the Council of Guardians to suppress voting, especially by the young.

While this effort may not be evident from Mr. Bush's national advertising, it is taking place in a more subtle effort.

On the surface this was an attempt to stir up the ancient unease about interracial dating, but beneath that was a subtle effort to discourage the most reliably Democratic voting bloc — black women — by reminding them of Ford's catholic dating tastes.

Is this another subtle effort from the Butt Sex Agenda to chip away at family values?