"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Fear was developing in him that he would be unable to take the city without a protracted effort.
- After protracted efforts to avoid incarceration, May subsequently served nine months in federal prison.
- "The Captive Public" is an acute study of the current political consequences of that "protracted effort" by the state.
- Because of the city's protracted efforts to have it demolished, he said, "this has become the Vietnam of old railroad trestles."
- The meetings revived talks between the two countries on China's protracted effort to become a member of the organization that sets global commerce rules.
- His protracted efforts were, in the long run, partly successful.
- "This is going to be an extraordinarily protracted effort."
- The agreement represents further progress in the difficult and protracted efforts to reschedule Brazil's debts to the foreign banks.
- He said he had learned from the protracted effort to sell the company's consulting businesses that "you don't announce sales in advance."
- That was excuse, reason and compulsion enough to demand the largest and most protracted effort they could make.
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