"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The administration's pressure thus encapsulates the problems of "public diplomacy," the term for the uphill efforts by Washington to sell American policies in the region.
- Smilin' Jack's gang and my rohobo gang were supposed to be working together, but real cooperation was an uphill effort.
- Democrats acknowledge that they face an uphill effort.
- It's an uphill effort by liberals to infiltrate what has long been staunchly conservative terrain, but the timing seems good.
- It was level for the first kilometer, then the uphill effort began in earnest on the Glymsbrekkur, a seven-hundred-foot climb.
- In a sincere but uphill effort to make the process seem more humane, each aspirant got a cheery greeting and a brisk "Great!"
- His legs balked at the uphill effort.
- Yet in an often uphill effort to build housing for the homeless, she has indeed found support from the Mayor.
- Mr. Richardson, sought to put an optimistic face on his uphill effort to condemn Iraq.
- But it faces an uphill effort, and the shifting political landscape will play a major role in its long-term vitality.
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