"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This could be a sign of secession efforts to come.
- The two nations have feuded heatedly over Cyprus since Turkey invaded in 1974, and tensions were aggravated in 1983 when Turkey gave its backing to a secession effort by one part of the island.
- Any proposal would need to be approved by the New York State Legislature, which has refuted all previous secession efforts, and the United States Congress.
- Previous secession efforts elsewhere have failed over that requirement; among them is an effort in Los Angeles County five years ago that was approved by the state board and then struck down by the courts.
- However, the secession effort in Virginia is being closely watched by Anglicans around the world because so many churches are poised to depart simultaneously.
- Still, the secession effort has left feelings of bitterness and resentment among those living in the rest of the Board 9 district.
- "People didn't understand it last year and didn't take it seriously," said Andrew P. Jones, who heads the secession effort, "This year, we don't have to educate people from scratch."
- They would have three options: to approve it, to end the secession process by disapproving it or to direct the commission to continue the secession effort but to develop a new charter proposal.
- Gowon rightly calculated that the eastern minorities would not actively support the Igbos, given the prospect of having their own states if the secession effort were defeated.
- Wilhelm also accused Raynor of supporting the disaffiliation effort only because he faced a difficult re-election bid, and of misusing union money and staff to support the secession effort.
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