It was Carole's well-meaning effort to class up the place.

This kind of thing opens up well-meaning effort and deserving causes to ridicule.

There is no guarding against bad decisions or a well-meaning effort which turns out to be untenable.

Mike steps in to correct the last contractor's well-meaning, yet amateur, efforts.

They resist the well-meaning efforts of police officers who try to shepherd them to safety.

I hoped to God their well-meaning efforts hadn't killed it.

This hindered many well-meaning efforts aimed at stabilizing southern Somalia.

Cynics might chalk up this latest report as yet another well-meaning effort to build support for child-abuse programs.

But that well-meaning effort to keep people out of the shelter system may also have made it harder for others to leave it.

The question is whether the well-meaning effort will actually improve the schools.