"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Minton became a dedicated foe of the church after learning of what he considered its heavy-handed efforts to silence the critics.
- But several diplomats left the meeting accusing the Government of a heavy-handed effort to manipulate public opinion.
- His supporters say the charges are a baseless, heavy-handed effort to silence an internationally known critic.
- "There were heavy-handed and under-handed efforts to reverse or to impose analytical conclusions," she said.
- "Respondent's heavy-handed effort to dictate what the attorney placed on the record was highly injudicious," the commission wrote.
- Many Senate Republicans were outraged by the subpoena, calling it a heavy-handed effort at intimidation.
- The defense argued that the undercover operation was a heavy-handed effort by the Government to arrest a black leader.
- The method, however, subsequently was undercut by heavy-handed efforts to increase farm production and amalgamate farms into ever-larger units.
- Its biggest flaw is a heavy-handed and probably unconstitutional effort to ban "indecent material" from the Internet.
- The confrontation was sharpened by the ruling party's occassionally heavy-handed efforts to restrict the opposition's access to the Government-controlled television and radio network.
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