Sentence examples for undone efforts from inspiring English sources

The election disputes have largely undone efforts by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to reach out to Sunnis, particularly in Kirkuk.

One can imagine Saddam urging himself through a fixed number of laps each morning, pushing to exceed the number he swam the previous year, as if time could be undone by effort and will.

Cornerback Davon House got within inches of blocking Phil Dawson's game-winning kick, but if he had succeeded would only have seen his efforts undone by the offside flag that had been thrown on the play.

Advocates of campaign reform struggled for too many years to have their efforts undone by a little band of willful party appointees arrogating unto themselves the right to maintain a corrupt election system.

As he documented in his unflinching book about his own depression, The Noonday Demon, he was almost undone in his efforts to report the world by the often debilitating bleakness of his internal landscape.

It has undone West Bengal's efforts to court industrial investment, and may have done wider damage to India's reputation.

DIPLOMATIC FREEZE WITH ISRAEL 13. (C) On Israel, the Prime Minister said Qatar would re-open the Israeli trade office once the conditions that led to this action were undone and Israel made efforts to improve the plight of the Palestinians.

A long-range Ludovic Sane strike was palmed away by home keeper Rob Elliot before Bordeaux's efforts were undone with an inexplicable own goal.

Edward himself visited in July, but the English efforts were undone before the end of the year when the Scottish Regent Sir Andrew Murray led a force that captured and again destroyed the defences of Dunnottar.

In January, Jordan tried to broker a resumption of the negotiations, but after five meetings the effort came undone.

He struck out five, but his superb effort was undone when Brocail allowed Baltimore to pull even in the eighth.