"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Medicare officials have accused health maintenance organizations of sending false information to their elderly subscribers in an effort to mobilize them to pressure Congress.
- "Val didn't send you here in an effort to bypass John, did he?"
- He would transmit any messages she wanted to send in an effort to reassure any concerned relatives.
- Colombia announced this week that it would send 5,000 of its troops to the border region in an effort to improve the situation.
- Another donor sent handmade quilts in an effort to settle her tax bill.
- The memo was sent last month in an unsuccessful effort to forestall a drop in the city's bond rating.
- For the last twenty years, my world has been sending scouts to each of the other nine worlds in an effort to monitor them.
- Syria sent troops into Lebanon in an effort to stop a civil war there.
- Pakistan has sent 70,000 troops - the army's first deployment in the tribal areas - in an effort to apprehend them.
- The two nations sent troops to Lesotho last September in an effort to restore order after months of political unrest.
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