Sentence examples for tour effort from inspiring English sources

He is 37:58 behind Contador after bad luck and crashes marred his Tour effort.

THERE is no end to professional snowboard tours' efforts to wrest control of their sport from the International Ski Federation FISS).

Mr. Paterson's radio tour, an effort to communicate more directly with citizens around the state, is to include interviews on stations in Rochester and Syracuse in the coming days.

Although it made few headlines on George Bush's European tour, the effort to prevent rogue regimes or terrorists from getting hold of nuclear, chemical or biological materials was high on his agenda.For a decade America has worked with Russia to help secure and dismantle the vast stockpile of such weapons left by the former Soviet Union.

To help deepen our usual tour greening efforts, the Campus Consciousness Tour's production infrastructure, including sound, stage and lighting equipment, was transported by UPS from show to show.

The painting is to be displayed in a dedicated room at the museum from March 2 to April 4. In 1988 the Louvre also had a successful public fund-raising campaign, to acquire a painting by Georges de La Tour, but that effort predated widespread Internet use.

If Kraft never wins on tour, lack of effort will not be the reason.

He had been engineering a comeback tour in an effort to rehabilitate his public image and bolster his tottering finances.

The sessions coincided with the opening of his three-week "progress and prosperity tour," a concerted effort to get credit for the nation's booming economy as well as to kick-start his campaign into a positive yet aggressive mode before the convention.

For Mrs. Clinton, the two-day stop in Beijing at the end of a weeklong Asian tour, represents an effort to put her own stamp on a relationship that was dominated by the Treasury Department in the latter years of the Bush administration.

"An exercise in showmanship to avoid answering the question," is the way the historian Robin Briggs describes his essay on "innocence" in 1964, a tour de force effort that began with the opening chords of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" and then brought in, among other things, the flawed heroes of Stendhal and the horrors of the prisoner-of-war camp in the William Golding novel "Free Fall".