Sentence examples for unusual efforts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

One of their most unusual efforts involved dogs trained to sniff whale scat, which the animals usually produce at the surface.

PARIS — In the latest in a series of unusual efforts to make Paris green, the city is now offering residents free sparkling water to try to wean Parisians not from red wine, but from overconsumption of plastic bottles.

Knowing that many of his charges were being raised by single parents or grandparents, some of them living in homeless shelters, he said he "wanted to show to them that we're an unusual school that makes unusual efforts".

Those numbers took no unusual effort and no nerdy hypermiling.

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

The inspection of the other airlines -- America West, American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, TWA, United and US Airways -- is an unusual effort to identify management problems.

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.