energetic effort

Example Sentences

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It also requires an energetic effort to evacuate Afghans who worked with the U.S. government and other institutions, even if that requires risking the lives of some American troops.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

What might a more energetic effort have entailed?

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2020

UConn: Two days after a game versus Tennessee that renewed a longstanding rivalry, the powerful Huskies withstood an energetic effort by ECU in the first quarter.

From Washington Times • Jan. 25, 2020

Despite an energetic effort to breathe life into their campaign after the interval, David Moyes's side were unable to overturn the deficit as they had done in such spectacular fashion against Manchester United last week.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010

And to my mind there can be no stronger motive than this perception, to an energetic effort that the lives nearest to us shall not suffer in a like manner from us.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by Morley, John