"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Until the local economy is sufficiently productive to meet Puerto Ricans' expectations, however, efforts to sustain living standards will almost inevitably distort development.
- The effort distorted her voice.
- And that has raised questions about whether efforts to broaden history, if taken too far, may sometimes distort it as well.
- You know how many efforts abort or distort.
- For the effort of the Owls distorted the signature balance of the Kansas Jayhawks with a unique, aggressive zone defense.
- He smiled-- and the effort distorted his pale, handsome face.
- He added that the U.S. "rejects efforts to distort the scope of this atrocity, rationalize the motivations behind it, blame the victims, and deny the indisputable fact that it was genocide."
- But others, including some prominent historians, argue that these efforts, often called Afrocentrism, sometimes distort facts and turn history into "ethnic cheerleading."
- "We saw bumbling and incompetence and inexperience, but apparently not any effort to distort the results."
- But efforts at promoting energy security or conservation should not artificially distort energy use patterns, adversely impacting only selected industries, or, as in the case of CAFE, only full-line manufacturers.
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