How To Use Concerted In A Sentence

The work of regulatory agencies was also undermined by budget cuts and a concerted unwillingness to enforce existing regulations.
Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
Subtitling is managed both neatly and completely, except in the concerted passages.
Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied.
Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.

The Town Hall seems fair game for criticism, but in fact there has been a concerted attempt, especially in the past few years, to get things moving.
looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
The prospect of cashing in on the huge émigré market is one reason many Irish retailers are making a concerted effort to make inroads into e-commerce.
The claim is made that there were several flaws in this case, and for years there has been a concerted attempt to declare that the case made against Hanratty was ‘unsafe.’
A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
But since she'd considered herself relatively fit, she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time.
The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
The ambassador was clearly disconcerted by the British reaction.
following preconcerted plans
Are its movements identical with those of the body, or only preconcerted and coincident with them, or is one simply an aspect of the other? Theaetetus
They all recognized him when he came closer, and they watched him with that peculiar concertedness which seizes upon an expectant company, until he dismounted at the corral gates and came toward them. The Range Boss
Continuing, Mr. Mackey said that the steel lighting standards, which had been provided, were pretty robust and they could only be damaged by someone making a concerted effort to break them.
The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
The try-outs are part of a concerted effort by World Wrestling Entertainment to reward their fans in the north west, who have been among the most fervent supporters of the company in the UK.
Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
Expecting the idiosyncratic, the bizarre, possibly the androgyne, they were disconcerted when confronted with what THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The mere meeting of competitors to exchange information, without this producing any cognizable impact on the market, would not amount to a concerted practice.
There's no cause to be "disconcerted" by this, and neither is there any reason to obscure the real uncertainties and open questions that scientists are working on. RealClimate
Others, shaping to play defensively, were beaten by turn and Steve Kirby was disconcerted by a ball that spun the other way.
Greenwalt says community associations should never foreclose on a home without notifying the owners and making a concerted effort to resolve the issue.
Despite concerted attempts to soften his rough-and-ready image, Latham found it difficult to shake off a reputation for aggression after breaking a taxi driver's arm in a dispute over a fare three years ago.
It seems possible that there has been a concerted conspiracy to damage the government. Times, Sunday Times
Easily fired at the idea of any injustice, and eager to redress the grievances of _the poor, _ Forester immediately concerted with these boys a scheme to deliver them from what he called the insolence of the dancing-master, and promised that he would compel him to go round by another street. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
In the late-seventies, there was a concerted legal attempt at what is called ‘craft severance.’
Thus together they amount to a concerted attempt to investigate whether or not any form of vertical behaviour is to be allowed.
Mediaset, however, said it is "disconcerted" by the commission's decision and will appeal at the European Court of Justice. EU Clears Sky Italia's Entry Into Free Digital TV Market
With the growth of the movement came a more radical agenda of teetotalism and a concerted campaign to end the state's liquor licensing system through local option legislation and eventually state prohibition in the 1850s.
And a likely crackdown on whiplash injury claims is part of a concerted drive to bring down premiums. Times, Sunday Times
He made a concerted effort to win me away from my steady, sweet but boring boyfriend.
He would have disconcerted the foreign powers, augmented his popularity, centuplicated his forces: but on the first of June it was too late: the additional act had appeared. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
The Government reiterated its intention to introduce a prohibition on anti-competitive agreements and concerted practices.
We have paid no concerted attention to the plight of spin bowling for 20-odd years and we are now reaping the harvest of that. Times, Sunday Times
A concerted communist attempt to oust Ross from the railways union was thwarted as a result of lobbying and branch stacking orchestrated by Ferguson.
Do not be disconcerted if your insurer appoints a loss adjuster.
The initiative has also made concerted attempts to tackle these problems.
The leadership at least realised that the organisation was being subjected to a concerted campaign of Trotskyite entrism.
We also want the Government to take concerted action to address attitudes that condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
It saw the Bread or Blood riots, frontier repressions and concerted anti-Chinese agitation.
Shayne, disconcerted by the sudden invitation, answered quickly, "That would take a bit of negotiation with my husband."
‘The Empire State Building is making a concerted effort to reclaim some of its past glory,’ said David Hoffman, executive managing director of Colliers.
The Army of the Potomac did not take the offensive alone: it marched aspart of a concerted attack on the vitals of the South. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
King County election workers were told as early as May that if an absentee ballot came in without a matching signature on file they were required to make a concerted effort to verify that the vote was valid.
The study suggests that concerted efforts to wean people away from cars and on to buses - or better still their own two feet - have made little impact on the younger generation.
Either way, these commentators must be feeling more than slightly disconcerted. Times, Sunday Times
With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate. Ramsey Milholland
Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The combat raged without intermission until nightfall: three cannon shots, discharged at the extremity of either line, then marked as if preconcertedly, the pause of battle; and both armies bivouacked exactly where the morning light had found them. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
He made a concerted effort to win me away from my steady, sweet but boring boyfriend.
So they have mounted a concerted campaign to dissuade schools and parents from joining. Times, Sunday Times
The initiative has also made concerted attempts to tackle these problems.
She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
After first realising the export possibilities while on a trade mission to Kuala Lumpur, Scrimgour made a concerted effort to discover new markets in developing countries.
But the party failed by one seat to take Thurrock, and lost a concerted attempt to win in Dover. Elections 2011: Turfed out of town halls, bitter Lib Dems point finger of blame
‘Migratory birds are no respecters of international boundaries and their future is linked to concerted global actions to tackle climate change,’ he said.
People are disconcerted, even frightened by that kind of lack of personal control.
He made a concerted effort to smile his way out of his understandably glum expression while I tried to say what I wanted to say in the right kind of way.
The whole thing stank of a concerted attempt to ride the wave of bad publicity games were getting in the mainstream press at the time.
The family has made a concerted effort to reinvest profits in the hotel and has tried to introduce a new feature each year.
However, while applaudable efforts have been recorded, there are still outstanding challenges that demand our concerted efforts to address with particular reference to rural development and human capital formation.
Where will the board draw the line between concerted activity and an employer's legitimate non-disparagement policy?
That opens the way for concerted action to end the regime and hold its leading figures to account. Times, Sunday Times
The reason there's been such a concerted effort to keep information under wraps now seems obvious: it's because that information is embarrassing.
This time they swapped their preferred beauty parade for some concerted tight exchanges, of which Mealamu's try was the icing.
I get a bit disconcerted when he's not. Times, Sunday Times
And it seems that there is a concerted effort lead by Democrats and parroted by the media, to disenfranchise us.
Ending segregation will take a concerted effort by us all. The Sun
Since then, there has been a concerted government attempt to split the ranks that has succeeded in some places, and failed in others.
intensity comes from a concerted effort by the band to go completely insane with their instruments.
It was developed over a two-year period and is the first concerted attempt in Hong Kong to provide common benchmarks and standards for public sector organisations.
A decade ago, a concerted international effort might have arrested its growth.
There has been a concerted campaign against the proposals.
Though they require concerted performance by a mass of individuals whose cultural and musical differences may be extreme, they do not therefore make it particularly easy to perform the world through song.
Rather than making a concerted attempt to connect with particular communities, BBC1 intends us to view these idents as a self-conscious display of its open-mindedness.
I've always been disconcerted as to why cities fall all over themselves trying to win the burden of the Olympics.
But under the circumstances with incomplete information, price leadership may contribute to the coordination of prices among the enterprises and constitute the concerted practice.
We have paid no concerted attention to the plight of spin bowling for 20-odd years and we are now reaping the harvest of that. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he has made a concerted effort to reassess. Times, Sunday Times
While he began to write more than a dozen dancing women swept into the room from behind the silk hangings in a concerted movement that was all lithe slumberous grace. In The Time Of Light
The whole experience had disconcerted him.
The Commission's current IT infrastructure is ready and capacitated to provide a stable platform to support the next national and provincial elections in 2009; and voter education will be done in a visible and concerted manner. Speech by Ronald Mofokeng during the consideration of reports of SCOPA on the Department of Home Affairs, the Government Printing Works and the Independent Electoral Commission
They acted as willing collaborators in a concerted campaign of disinformation designed to justify a criminal war of aggression.
The socialist and anarchist parties proved unable to mount a concerted challenge to the burgeoning one-party dictatorship.
In many a laboured scene of the wannest humour and of the most affecting passion I have seen the best actors disconcerted, while these buzzing muscatos have been fluttering round their eyes and ears. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
Edie hesitated, and shook her head, being too disconcerted to say anything.
Since making that complaint it seems that there has been, on the information I have, a concerted effort to discredit her in many, many ways.
It therefore represents a concerted effort of scientists from biophysics, biochemistry, physical chemistry, and bioengineering.
The waggon had just arrived at the gates, which were opened for the boat to enter, when the Athenians, with whom the whole affair had been preconcerted, seeing this movement, rushed out of the ambuscade, wanting to get in before the gates were shut again and while the waggon was still in them, and prevented them from being closed. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Despite concerted international efforts to expand access to wells and municipal waterworks, the number of people drinking water from so-called unimproved sources has remained more or less the same since 1990.
What you need is the kind of change that takes no concerted effort, money, or real intentions of self-betterment. Jilly Gagnon: Your Best Beard Ever!
Worried police chiefs are drafting in extra bobbies and moving traffic officers to regular beats in a concerted attempt to tackle a surge in crime in York and Selby.
But a concerted campaign to brand him a psychopath is, to my mind, not merely gutter journalism but contemptible.
There was no concerted attempt to review its record in government, discuss its mistakes, adjust its philosophical framework and party structure, and rethink its policy agenda.
So the Congress of Vienna must be one of history's best examples of a concerted and successful attempt to defend and preserve a major and long-lasting status quo.
In company with these gentlemen, Kate and I, preconcertedly, paid uncle Rumgudgeon a visit on the afternoon of Sunday, October the tenth -- just three weeks after the memorable decision which had so cruelly defeated our hopes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Pat O'Toole, an honorary life member of Tullow Show Society, remarked that the vandalism didn't appear to be the work of youths as a concerted effort seemed to have gone into the removal of the posters.
At that time, the pioneer must make a concerted effort in order to survive. Today, for Calgary, the spirit of cooperation is a tradition, a culture and bailment for future.
This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs, jumpstart our economy, and begin the process of transforming it for the 21st century with $275 billion in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in thoughtful and carefully targeted priority investments with unprecedented accountability measures built in. ... NASA Watch: January 2009 Archives
Rather it appears to have been a concerted policy decision to use illegal techniques to acquire intelligence from detainees in violation of international standards.
There has been action taken sporadically or on a one-off basis, but no concerted move. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly they stop, disconcerted by the noise of disturbed leaves.
Libraries have made a concerted effort to attract young people.
The move to sue comes despite concerted action to tackle bullying in schools in the past few years, including a national anti-bullying network.
Worried police chiefs are drafting in extra bobbies and moving traffic officers to regular beats in a concerted attempt to tackle a surge in crime in York and Selby.
We can either emphasise this intolerance, as extremists and fundamentalists do, or we can make a concerted effort to make the compassionate voice of religion audible in our troubled world.
On a couple of occasions there's such an outbreak of concerted strumming, it's as though the stage has been invaded by Andrew Lawrence-King's Harp Consort.
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But where is this concerted flush of global attention taking Mexican cinema?
In recent years, the gallery has made a concerted effort to procure art works by contemporary South African artists.
This new benignity and tolerance a little disconcerted him.
This again disconcerted me; and the spirits I had determined to exert, again failed me. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
Once a murmuration gets this large, the best way to get rid of them is through a major concerted effort, as officials were doing Monday evening, he said.
That warrior, nothing disconcerted, pursued his way to the island of Zante, where he fell in with a Turkish "flota," under the command of the Bashas Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
Yet he has made a concerted effort to reassess. Times, Sunday Times
Only concerted action and investigation by the government can right these tragic injustices that continue to occur.
What we need is a concerted effort to invest in better practices. Times, Sunday Times
A hypothetical outer-sphere electron transfer should occur by concerted dissociative electron transfer.
He told MPs there had been a concerted attempt by a small number of civil servants in the Department's press office to undermine the Department.
Odo smiled without teeth, knowing that the expression disconcerted the Farruna. Proud Helios
Iris opened it to find a youngish dark-haired woman outside, who looked disconcerted at the appearance of a stranger. MURKY SHALLOWS
The three squadrons of the wing were now able to deliver concerted attacks against convoys. Times, Sunday Times
There may exist a concerted lobby of people from some communal organizations whose job is to sieve through the media everyday and send hateful letters to editors - using mostly fictitious names and addresses.
We are seeing improvements but there needs to be a more concerted effort. Times, Sunday Times
The doggerel of the earlier years had almost entirely disappeared, and in its place appeared the perfect concerted music of the stanzas (from the sonnet and the Spenserian downwards), the infinite variety of the decasyllable, and the exquisite lyric snatches of song in the dramatists, pamphleteers, and music-book writers. A History of Elizabethan Literature
Certainly Denis Burke has, I guess you could say, made a concerted effort certainly in recent years and certainly recent month as far as canvassing the Indigenous vote.
One other circumstance is worthy of remark; and that is, that from the moment of their first outbreak at Westminster, every symptom of order or preconcerted arrangement among them vanished. Barnaby Rudge
A concerted effort must be made to rectify the situation.
Cynics comment that it may well have been a more concerted attempt by the president to target black voters for the 1964 election.
The North has been making a concerted effort to end its diplomatic isolation since last year.
And the curiosity - dealer, who plainly had not expected his uncouth visitor, seemed disconcerted and embarrassed.
The whole experience had disconcerted him.
As part of a concerted effort to reinvigorate residential communities, 2, 000 new houses have sprung up since 1990.
We also want the Government to take concerted action to address attitudes that condone violence. Times, Sunday Times
Only occasionally does one of the boys emerge from behind the verbal curtain to assume an active role vis-a-vis one of the sisters -- most notably "Trip Fontane," who attempts to court Lux Lisbon -- and the narrator's role ultimately is really to testify to the enduring spell cast by the sisters, to give us access to them through a concerted act of memory from which they have never departed: Point of View in Fiction
Only in the last few days has the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a concerted attempt to measure and track the vast plumes of sub-surface oil that environmentalists have been warning about for weeks. Obama's Oil Spill Press Conference May Have Changed Perceptions -- But The Reality Remains The Same
The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule.
HRW also decried what it called a concerted attack on the International Criminal Court Canada.com Top Stories
Frankly speaking, I've no preconcerted destination at all when I set off but I'd cherished a dream, which makes me feel vigorous and young again.
But the bulk of them are so idiotic, so literal-minded, so surreal that they would barely merit mention if they were not part of a concerted attempt to smear him.
It heralded decades of concerted efforts by generations of African leaders and peoples to bring closer to fruition the concretisation of the vision of Pan-Africanism and the realisation of an African Renaissance. ANC Daily News Briefing
I changed my mind and disconcerted her plan.
The move towards a concerted style is seen in Monteverdi's madrigal output.
She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
That your misfortune is the result of a concerted plan on the part of Le Noir and his tool, I partly see, but I wish you to put me in possession of all the facts, that I may see in what manner I may be able to assist you. The Hidden Hand
There have been much more concerted attempts to professionalize management education, and to base general management expertise in formalized education.
The Tamils, who appeared to take no joy in choosing between two men who have killed tens of thousands of their neighbours, surprised many observers by turning strongly to Gen. Fonseka in what some describe as a concerted act of revenge for the abuse and segregation meted out by the government after the war. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Real joined-up thinking would mean a concerted attempt to take the heat off the south-east.
I use the word abrupt, because in spite of the scattered instances of female prosiliency throughout history, and the long struggle beginning in the last century for the vote, or the individual determination to strive for some more distinguished fashion of coping with poverty than school-teaching or boarding-house keeping, the concerted awakening of the sex was almost as abrupt as the European War. The Living Present
He added: ‘There is evidence which could be taken to show a concerted attempt by the chain of command to influence and prevent an investigation.’
He made a concerted effort to win me away from my steady, sweet but boring boyfriend.
Evelyn was momentarily disconcerted by his response, until she saw his eyes focussing on her neck.
In attempts to reduce the vegetable growers dependence on insecticides for controlling root-feeding dipterous pests a concerted effort has been made to develop alternative control measures.
We need to make a concerted effort to finish on time.
The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
The drug cartels are making a concerted comeback and the police are getting edgy. Times, Sunday Times
It is a concerted attempt to change the historical trajectory that we've been on of discrimination and affirmative action on behalf of white people in the past.
It brought plenty of vigor to the vivace opening movement, appropriately so, although the acoustics of the drawing room venue for the concerts lent a hard edge to some of the concerted passages.
Gould, a pianist himself, has written several concerted works for the instrument.
Whereas the official version of the December shootout in Khotan prefecture brought out questions regarding Chinese government accusations of a concerted Uyghur terror network, the suggestion that the Uyghurs involved could have been refugees highlighted a problem escalating throughout the year. Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review
Without concerted action, that number will only rise. Times, Sunday Times
He called for concerted efforts in preventing spread of the disease and alleviating the suffering of people infected and affected.
Galligan said last week he was "disconcerted" by Lieberman's statement at a Thursday news conference that effectively declared Hasan guilty of the shootings. Senate committee subpoenas gov't over Fort Hood shooting
Clyde recovered their poise sufficiently to make their first concerted raid in seven minutes when Allan Grant's cross forced McDonald to concede a corner at the far post.
Then they hear from their customers - not just scattered objections now and then, but in concerted, coordinated, well-informed waves.
Grey partridge are down to a handful of coveys and look as if they will become extinct unless concerted effort is made.
Compulsive early music fanatics might be disconcerted by the variety of composition and performance styles.
In the opening scene, a commuter waiting in an otherwise empty Metro station is disconcerted by a conversation with a character played by Gerard Depardieu, in which the latter talks of his dreams of murder and displays a potential weapon -- a flick-knife. Archive 2008-08-01
By October 1989, therefore, the time was right for a concerted diplomatic initiative against drift-net fishing.
In fact, they used the front door so infrequently that when they did, their mothers were disconcerted.
He was disconcerted to hear that she wanted a pink living room, but he followed her lead, draping the room's three sets of French doors and two windows in striped pink taffeta.
Any husband who would be "disconcerted" by having a wife capable of finding interesting and original things to say to people would be way too insecure and twat-like to pull such a social competent in the first place. What blokes say
Alternatively, an apparent readiness to change may conceal an intention to resist in concerted action with others.
He was disconcerted to find his fellow diners already seated.
They agreed that it demanded a concerted response, not piecemeal action.
It wasn't until the mid-1960s that a concerted attempt to study the wreck was started by a team led by Alexander McKee.
The stand-off was the pick of the team, kicking two penalties and converting their try after a concerted drive by the forwards.
A global concerted effort is required to avert a global health crisis.
One of the National Institutes of Health has begun a concerted effort to determine the extent and causes of stillbirth - the death of a fetus at 20 or more weeks of pregnancy.
The richer countries of the world should take concerted action to help the poorer countries.
The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
Only by concerted action can we counter the sheer humanity of those who wish to prolong the agony of death.
Edward and Dick were near coming in for some hard usage from Goggins, conceiving it might be a preconcerted attempt on the part of his prisoners and their newly arrived friends to achieve a rescue; and while he was rolling about on the ground, he roared to his evil-visaged janitor to look to the door first, and keep him from being "murthered" after. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
Disconcert: The cat's cold stare disconcerted me.
She has begun to make a concerted effort to find a job.
His vague reply disconcerted us completely.
Anyway, something about the call disconcerted me, and it took me a while to realize what it was ... Young Philly Politics - Progressive, Young, Philadelphia Politics, from Small to Big.
On 18 April 1947, the Royal Navy detonated 6800 tons of explosives in a concerted attempt to destroy the main island.
There was also the perennial problem of all concerted attempts to ‘elevate’ the workers' taste in popular art: like it or not, proletarians enjoy ‘bourgeois’ realism.
But a concerted effort has begun to improve the quality of the urban air.
I get a bit disconcerted when he's not. Times, Sunday Times
She said there is no evidence of concerted voter fraud in the stadium election.
Whatever was flashing through the visibly disconcerted president's mind, he could not come up with a direct answer.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that Europe and Japan are also slowing, in the first concerted downturn since the oil shocks of the 1970s.
He nodded, somewhat disconcerted by his mother's sudden generosity, and jogged up the stairs.
But a concerted effort has begun to improve the quality of the urban air.
It would have required a concerted group tribal effort to mine, smelt and cast the copper axe head.

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