Sentence examples for usual effort from inspiring English sources

Martínez said he threw with half his usual effort.

Rock of Gibraltar could go off at odds as low as 2-5 and would figure to need only his usual effort to win comfortably.

The defeat was all the more bitter because, in the usual effort to appease the conservatives (with the usual lack of success — only five Republicans and only four Southern Democrats voted pro), the bill was watered down in advance.

"We're seeing this White house dodge and bob and weave in their usual effort to avoid responsibility, just as they've done each step of the way in our involvement in Iraq," he said in Iowa.

Having been out of the dating game for some time, I had made a greater than usual effort getting ready, and had booked us a table at an expensive bar.

One afternoon, in his usual effort to divert me from teaching, Alex started telling me about his weekend.

Carnegie Hall (1947) was an atypical entry in Ulmer's filmography, a UA musical that was more highbrow than his usual efforts.

Colorado is taking a nontraditional approach to the usual efforts of creating ads that are meant to help burnish the brand image of a state.

The 2012 Summer Games are also bringing the usual efforts that are known as "ambush marketing," in which advertisers whose competitors are Olympic sponsors also seek to cloak themselves in Olympic trappings.

It has a heading, "Profiles.' " A few days later, informed of this quizzical exchange, Mr. Tomkins chuckled, then explained that his Johns profile was less personal, less biographically invasive, than his usual efforts.

In the broadest sense, allowing this flood of ad money feels contrary to our usual efforts to ensure that we know who is spending large sums to try to influence the makeup and actions of our government.