Sentence examples for thwarted effort from inspiring English sources
A map on Tuesday with an article about hundreds of Chinese miners who have traveled to Ghana in a mostly thwarted effort to make their fortune in the country's gold mines mislabeled a country in West Africa.
If so, then the Ginsburg and Breyer statement will have no greater effect than the thwarted effort by members of the Occupy movement to claim the Supreme Court's plaza on the decision's second anniversary last month.
Those who decried Vernon Jordan's thwarted effort to secure Monica Lewinsky an entry-level job at Revlon ignored the mayor's successful installation of Cristyne Lategano-Nicholas in a $150,000 taxpayer-subsidized job at the city's tourism bureau.
But David Tarloff, unemployed and living alone, kept trying to seek her out in the hopes of bringing her home to live with him again, growing increasingly agitated with each thwarted effort.
Gray Davis, the governor of California, fancifully urged residents to make big cuts in electricity consumption.See article: California's summer power problemsAfter last month's thwarted effort to buy Australia's Woodside, Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil giant, lost out in a $2 billion bid for Barrett, an American gas concern.
In the United States, Amazon successfully thwarted efforts to unionize.
The leaders of Brookhaven Laboratory seized on the opportunity to redeem their thwarted efforts on Isabelle.
But a long-running debate has thwarted efforts to address the problem both at the federal and state level.
Ms. Isles said government officials regularly thwarted efforts to get an accurate count of the number of people at Maslakh.
And the plan follows decades of thwarted efforts to bring effective ethics enforcement to a capital plagued by corruption.
But enough voters cast ballots that Afghan officials said they had thwarted efforts by the insurgents to derail the vote.
