How to use "efforts" in a sentence

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance

Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it

But their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition

Yes, the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products, and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities

To those people in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them, help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.

Forgetting her troubles for a moment, she smiled at the dentist's humorous efforts to sell the people of Montreuil false teeth.

Madeleine said, despite his efforts to speak quietly, began to tremble.

She was aware of his reputation as a perfectionist who demanded superhuman efforts from his people