Sentence examples for trying to be effective from inspiring English sources

"We're relatively small, but we're trying to be effective and relevant".

Perhaps it's easier to identify with; the things that drive the character, as Odenkirk will tell me, "almost anybody can relate to... trying to please your family or your older brother or win a girl, trying to be effective in the world and have people appreciate your skills – things that everyone's working on nearly every day".

We may have a handful of things we can keep in our brains at once, at least at the moment we are trying to be effective employees and do the job to the best of our abilities with the data the machines have been kind enough to supply for us.

Some months ago I was sitting with some colleagues talking about challenges we all face trying to be effective leaders.

In other words, they will try to be effective in ways that most senators now are, but that Moynihan never was.

They do not facilitate an already difficult job, in which we try to be effective, professional and, at the same time, correct.

Watching the real Imelda's enamelled presence on television, in the eighties, one got the sense that she was hovering somehow above the action, oblivious even as she tried to be effective.

I tell women to try to be effective 85percentt of the time.

On the other hand, peace activists can't be satisfied with being right; they also are morally compelled to try to be effective.

However, as I wrote at the outset, it is not enough to be right; one has the moral obligation to also try to be effective.

Even though mixed race children and interracial couples have come to dominate our advertising (the cynical part of me thinks this is just advertisers trying to be cost effective in hitting all their demographics), we're still working on the basics.