Sentence examples for troubled effort from inspiring English sources

The troubled effort to build a Southern interracial democracy out of the ashes of the Civil War was over.

And the troubled effort to devise them has raised broader questions about what kind of evidence should be used to direct medical practice, how changes should be introduced and even which guidelines to believe.

Clarke relates Coleman's grandly transformative multimedia projects (including one involving satellite transmissions) to her own; his troubled effort to rehabilitate a Lower East Side building highlights the free-flowing connection of art and life.

Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called on the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate possible voting-rights violations in Florida's troubled effort to purge felons from its voter registration lists.

TOKYO — Japan's troubled effort to contain the nuclear contamination crisis at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a setback on Sunday when alarmingly high radiation levels were discovered in a flooded area inside the complex, raising new questions about how and when recovery workers could resume their tasks.

On Wednesday, as he was arriving at his office in a residential area of turbulent Peshawar, he was shot and killed by gunmen, becoming the most prominent casualty of an increasingly troubled effort to use economic aid to undercut the hold of Al Qaeda and the Taliban on Pakistan's tribal areas.

Other documents provide a window into power clashes over the Vatican bank's troubled efforts to meet international transparency standards.

Despite everything, Mr Abbas's troubled efforts to fashion such a ceasefire should be helped, not scorned.

The broader anxieties about Africa's resolve to combat corruption have emerged from troubled efforts in several countries.

A garrulous but often absent dad, Holbrooke had a career that spanned 50 years of foreign policy, from the hard lessons he observed as an eager foreign service officer in Vietnam, to his crowning achievement in the '90s securing peace in the Balkans and, lastly, his troubled efforts to replicate that success in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

The power plants could also boost a troubled reconstruction effort in Iraq.