"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Until it does, Japan's efforts to play a more active role in Asian affairs will provoke distrust.
- Mr. Bush's effort could provoke new questions about what constitutes a legitimate religion.
- The leadership's effort to take back welfare money provoked protests from the nation's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike.
- But that effort, led by the United States, was only partially successful and provoked considerable resentment among some nations.
- An earlier effort to change the pension system provoked huge street protests during the mid-1990's and contributed to the Socialist landslide in 1997.
- Short-sellers say that plan is little more a thinly disguised effort to provoke a short squeeze.
- The effort has provoked outrage among doctors, who say it will drive a wedge into the doctor-patient relationship.
- But efforts to crack down on the practice provoked an outcry that caused political problems for the White House.
- Its efforts to find new markets in the Balkans had provoked intense nationalist feeling among the smaller peoples of the region.
- For more than three decades, efforts to reform the courts provoked legislative dogfights.
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