"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The man tried to smile, but the effort died on his lips.
- An effort in 1994 to bring down the flag died for lack of support.
- All my efforts have died like a hopeless shout upon the desert air.
- But prospects for such legislation appear dim; similar efforts died in 1988.
- But the efforts died because of inertia or bureaucratic resistance.
- Two recent efforts to institute additional standards for security guards both died in legislative committees.
- Across the last decade, numerous efforts to refine the campaign finance laws have died.
- This year a similar effort died in a day.
- A statute would involve the House and perhaps a conference, where past efforts had died.
- An effort to do more, by legislation, died in the Senate.
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