11 sentences with “efforts”

Despite their efforts, the team could not convert the opportunity into a goal.

Making efforts to improve my spelling, I have made significant progress towards my goals.

Despite his efforts to avoid it, the businessman was forced to lay off some of his employees to cut costs.

Her tireless efforts attracted official attention.

It seemed that his efforts were finally paying off.

Nature lovers should be grateful for Carlos Martín's efforts to save that nature reserve.

These efforts met with strong opposition from the locals, who argued that they had the right to do with their land as they pleased.

That man recognized that his wife was right, and that despite all his efforts to become the best lover in the world, he had failed miserably.

Julie returned to the United States determined to devote even more time to relief efforts for victims of war, political unrest, famine and poverty.

Priests probably led efforts to build irrigation systems and made decisions about city building and rebuilding, since they had a monopoly on explaining the great forces at work in human life.

At the turn of the century, efforts were made to dissuade the dead from returning. The body was buried with some sacrifices and a farewell ceremony. It was buried facing away from the village: they had to be kept apart.