Sentence examples for undertaking an effort from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the new commission chairman, Reed E. Hundt, a Democrat from North Carolina and a close political ally of Vice President Al Gore, was undertaking an effort to replace the lottery system with public auctions of a variety of radio, television, telephone and satellite airwaves.

In 2004, Tori Haring-Smith became the first woman to serve as president of Washington & Jefferson, undertaking an effort to improve the science curriculum and to construct the Swanson Science Center.

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned fellow Republicans this week, saying President Barack Obama's inaugural address had convinced him that the president was undertaking an effort to "annihilate" the GOP.

Rather than taking a searching inventory of the relevant history or undertaking an effort to understand the political science, he attributes the fact that "Presidents did stuff" to a hazy concept called "leadership" and proceeds to conclude that if a president isn't successfully "doing some stuff" then that president "can't lead".

This week, however, US Admiral William McRaven undertook an effort to roll back the earnest accomplishments of Senator Leahy and others.

The nation must find a way to become energy-independent, he said, promising as president to undertake an effort comparable to the one that put man on the moon.

Mr. Giuliani was twice elected mayor of heavily Democratic New York City, and Mr. D'Amato undertook an effort to rehabilitate the state party that culminated in 1994 with the election of George E. Pataki, a state senator from Peekskill, as governor.

B.G.I. has undertaken an effort to engineer nutrients into the vegetable; that would make it an edible, healthy source of protein that can be eaten throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops, acknowledging that American Catholics pay little heed to their church's ban on contraception, undertook an effort Wednesday to reinforce it, and linked it to the anti-abortion campaign.

The Seleucid king Demetrius II, probably aware of Mithradates' difficulties in the east, undertook an effort to recover Mesopotamia, but after a few successes he suffered defeat and was taken prisoner (139 bc).

Therefore, we undertook an effort to verify the performance of LIR observation on orbit at an early stage so that any error could be precisely estimated.