It takes time and concerted effort to make the change you'd like to see happening.

This meant, among other things, a concerted German effort to capture Josip Broz Tito personally.

Tolkien made another concerted effort in 1946, and showed the manuscript to his publishers in 1947.

any concerted practice or category of concerted practices,

any concerted practice or category of concerted practices ,

Unilateral or concerted

As a result, Spain now requires a concerted effort from its citizens, one rooted in confidence in their achievements of the last 30 years.

The king Prithviraj Chauhan was defeated in 1192 by Muhammad Ghori, a Tajik invader from Afghanistan, who made a concerted effort to conquer northern India.

In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, philologists and academics such as Mikiel Anton Vassalli made a concerted effort to standardize written Maltese.

...since September 2012, a concerted effort to encourage support for Buddhist shops and to discourage Buddhists from patronizing establishments with Muslim ownership and refuse sale to Muslims

And that's a concerted platform.

But there is a serious downside The deal could hurt developing country exporters, unless the EU and the US make a concerted effort to protect these actors interests.

Such a compromise should begin with a concerted effort by the US to enhance China s role in international economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the WTO.

The 2008 UN Development Program Report ranked Burkina Faso as the country with the lowest level of literacy in the world, despite a concerted effort to double its literacy rate from 12.8 in 1990 to 25.3 in 2008.

A heroic effort is a collective effort, number one.

The gun type design proved impractical to use with plutonium so a more complex implosion type weapon was developed in a concerted design and construction effort at the project's principal research and design laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Drawing particularly from the theories of Michel Foucault and performativity in western academia, and the more diverse influences of postcolonial theory, there has been a concerted effort to deconstruct the cultural in order to make apparent the various power relations.

Make an effort.

Attention and effort .

It takes a human effort, a team effort, to bring the fish in.

Third, you reward effort.

I appreciate the effort.

The effort paid off.

Israeli forces made a concerted attempt to dislodge them, but were unable to do so.

GH OK, E for effort.

The collaborative effort was fabulous.

Every effort deserves a reward.

Nothing is achieved without effort.

But it's a conscious effort.

Success depends mostly on effort.

Every effort was in vain.

Without effort, nothing is possible.

It was a group effort.

No additional effort is required.

More approaches like this and concerted efforts to find markets or uses for surplus food are needed.

And the term cyber war, though best defined as any hostile action in cyberspace that amplifies or is equivalent to major physical violence, remains equally protean, reflecting definitions of war that range from armed conflict to any concerted effort to solve a problem (for example, war on poverty ).

On the initiative of the ECB , the monetary authorities of the United States , Japan , Canada and the United Kingdom joined the ECB in a concerted intervention against the background of the exchange rate developments described in Chapter I. The concerted intervention was followed by unilateral intervention by the ECB on 3 , 6 and 9 November , which were to be seen as a continuation of the concerted action .

That's kind of too much effort.

And checking the box takes effort.

So it was a massive effort.

We cannot help admiring their effort.

He made no effort to apologize.

Tom was impressed with Mary's effort.

It was indeed worth the effort.

More volunteers had joined the effort.