"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Sri Lankan Air Force bombed the city last summer in a haphazard effort to relieve the pressure on the besieged Government garrison inside the fort.
- Gomek already controlled the economy of the Esliph, and their intrusion into human space had been no haphazard effort of a few starveling colonials.
- This was not a haphazard effort.
- The haphazard efforts towards conciliation in Cambodia culminated in the Paris Agreements in 1991, in which United Nations-sponsored free and fair elections were scheduled for 1993.
- The ball bounced around in the corner and Orsulak struggled to field it, his haphazard effort earning him an error and Daulton second base.
- On the other hand, they're making a very haphazard effort to do so.
- Moreover, there was never a systematic focus on one type of target (such as airbases, radar stations, or aircraft factories); consequently, the already haphazard effort was further diluted.
- Critics contend that such arcades have created a wide loophole in the already haphazard effort to keep children from access to games designed for adults.
- The resulting book has less in common with "Citizen Kane" than with one of Welles's later, haphazard efforts - "The Stranger," perhaps, or even that self-conscious disaster, "Mr. Arkadin."
- For Russia, the deal represents a big step in what has been until now a haphazard effort to bring into private ownership some of the crown jewels of nationalized business.
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