"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In spite of her overt efforts to indicate otherwise there was something faintly anxious about Skye's demeanor.
- He felt like he'd been awake for days and, despite an overt effort to keep his eyes open, he plunged into sleep.
- Yet the Jewish community in Berlin is highly visible, in part because of an overt effort on behalf of the city government.
- Never before in a U.S. political campaign has the party out of power made such an overt effort to undermine a peace negotiation.
- "You can look at all that as artificial," Fassel said of his overt efforts this past year to foster a kinship among his players.
- Republicans, who revel in national security debates, hope to gain from the focus on Iraq through osmosis, absorbing the benefits without much overt effort.
- Time after time, the overt efforts to propagate the liberal agenda in the media fail miserably.
- But China has resisted overt efforts at gathering intelligence about Soviet blasts.
- I would challenge that and say, 'Maybe you should make an overt effort to make the rest of your life as full as you can.'
- On the grounds that there has been an overt effort by the Klan to intimidate this panel.
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