"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Short of time and facing mounting opposition, the chairman of the House Banking Committee today abandoned an ambitious election-year effort to overhaul the financial-services industry.
- Abortion would remain a lawful option, thereby blunting an election-year effort to pass a Federal abortion rights bill that is now the top legislative priority of the abortion rights movement.
- Yet it was treated by nearly all commentators as a purely political document--an election-year effort to accentuate the positive.
- To the Editor: In an election-year effort to show toughness on crime, New York State legislators have limited prisoners' access to work release.
- Ms. Rice's presentation is considered critical to the White House's election-year effort to put questions about the Sept. 11 attacks behind it.
- Republicans on the subcommittee were generally silent as Democrats branded them as sheep following their leaders' election-year efforts to satisfy conservatives.
- Democrats Make Their Move Democrats, worried about President Bush's popularity, are beginning an election-year effort to criticize his handling of the economy.
- With the Presidential election at hand, Mr. Cuomo reports that he has been recruited to speak on behalf of the President, part of a standard election-year effort.
- Supporters of Mr. Kerry have dismissed the administration's sudden push in Afghanistan as an election-year effort to produce a foreign policy success to counter continuing problems in Iraq.
- Americans will be receiving smaller tax refunds for 1992 as a result of the Bush Administration's election-year effort to spur activity by reducing the tax withheld from paychecks.
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