Sentence examples for unusual effort from inspiring English sources

With few exceptions, innovation is the result of unusual effort.

Those numbers took no unusual effort and no nerdy hypermiling.

"We made a most unusual effort to reach out," Ms. Stratton said.

But with both formats I was also restlessly aware of the unusual effort it was taking to read onscreen.

That is the premise of an unusual effort by a former Google executive to promote start-ups through the creation of a new investment vehicle.

Representative Dennis Kucinich, the very liberal Ohio Democrat, evidently won't be heading West in an unusual effort to remain a member of Congress.

Others have looked at unusual efforts to get young people to the polls.

To his credit, the new military commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers, has made unusual efforts to reach out to critics.

One of its more unusual efforts came last year, when it proposed a takeover of Circuit City Stores, the electronics retailer.

The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, who has made a series of unusual efforts to revive growth, has not discouraged speculation that he is ready to try again.

One of the most unusual efforts was the Saturday Evening Girls Club, founded by women in Boston in 1899 to teach craft skills to immigrant girls.