"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Other protesters' efforts to get into the plant grounds were thwarted by police.
- Early efforts were thwarted by serious cultural, religious and psychological barriers.
- The central bank's efforts were thwarted by the strong year-end demand for money.
- My fear is that these efforts will be thwarted.
- Yet for more than 10 years, every effort to do so has been thwarted by human rights laws.
- All efforts at getting clear of Tyrsis to regain the open country beyond had been thwarted.
- Their efforts were thwarted by the Austrian practice of making decisions behind closed doors.
- Their efforts have been thwarted mainly by disputes over how to police modern biology and medicine.
- Since then, he said, two efforts to open a small business of his own were thwarted by the high cost of borrowing money.
- These efforts at compromise could well be thwarted by the forces of election year politics.
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