Sentence examples for virgin effort from inspiring English sources

According to the 16th-century art-stargazer Giorgio Vasari, the master's virgin effort was a smallish, slightly customized painted copy of a German print.

The itch to produce full time continued to nag at him for months, he said, after the 2006 opening of the current Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line," his virgin effort as a showman.

British tycoon Richard Branson's Virgin Oceanic effort may be the best-known of the privately funded endeavors, while countries such as China have also sent manned crafts to some of the oceans' most inaccessible places, albeit for different reasons.

That's exactly why the U.S. Transportation Department has for now denied Virgin America's effort to offer service within the United States, as the company has ties to Richard Branson, the British billionaire (See "Virgin: 'Let Me Fly'").

Virgin America opposes an effort by six rivals to protect takeoff and landing slots they may not use in New York, Chicago and Washington this winter because of high fuel costs.

And many plastics that make it to a recycling center are never recycled because the recycling cost does not justify the effort when virgin materials are cheap.

In order to reduce the dependency on virgin materials for construction, efforts have been made to incorporate by-products and wastes from different industries as alternatives in concrete.

Mr. Harper's eighth studio album, "Lifeline" (Virgin), due out this week, was a collaborative effort.

My interest weened pretty quickly once Helio got snatched up by Virgin Mobile, as it seemed like their efforts with the property would be few and far between.

Virgin Rail is also suing NR in an  effort to force the company to speed up infrastructure improvements.

But "Virgin," which lists none of Blank's previous efforts on the dust jacket, turns out to be quite a different animal.