"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A few years ago after Maine reopened its long-closed moose-hunting season, there was a well-organized but unsuccessful effort, involving a statewide referendum, to block it.
- Relief workers are feeding and housing the exiles in tents and local government buildings in a well-organized effort.
- Through a well-organized effort, it managed in 1983 to get a nonbinding referendum question on the ballot in Bucks County (whose taxpayers would front the money to build the system).
- The secretary of defense, Angelo T. Reyes, resigned, saying he wanted to spare the armed forces from a "well-organized effort" to discredit him.
- The attempted assassination was the most recent example of what appears to be a well-organized effort to destabilize the interim government of Hamid Karzai, which took office in December.
- Then with one mighty, concerted, and very well-organized effort, he overcame the last defenses of the fort, entered, and massacred the inhabitants.
- Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans.
- This is pretty much what I've been saying; Anonymous proved effective when they went after Scientology, which was a well-organized effort and a worthy cause.
- Despite the occasional fumble, Mr. Goldin's campaign has the feel of a well-organized effort.
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