"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It also said that recruits had been given athletic equipment and that an Illinois recruiter had engaged in a knowing and willful effort to break N.C.A.A. rules.
- Did he use up all his ability in one mad, willful effort to escape?
- The pretrial motions in the Libby case have not, as yet, produced evidence that there was any willful effort to leak Ms. Wilson's identity.
- The harsher potential charges announced today would apparently apply to a deliberate, willful effort by a patient to spread the disease, something that has not been reported.
- But the Mollen Commission said it concluded that the problem was "a willful effort" by commanders of the Internal Affairs Division, the principal anti-corruption unit, to impede the investigation.
- Secretly, each knew that being objective about this particular patient would require a great and willful effort.
- If there are problems, we suspect that most stem from inadvertent errors because of the complexity of the rules - not willful efforts to avoid compliance.
- Whether that's a result of inadequate education or evidence of a willful effort to get attention, I'm not sure.
- Some of those immigrants and their first-generation American children turned away from the past in a willful effort to escape it.
- Betty Greer, Post-Feminism and the Robotech Wars Lieutenant Marie Crystal made a willful effort to face the camera now as she had faced enemy guns yesterday.
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