MacFarland's got on very well before your well-meant efforts to turn it into a bear-garden.

This well-meant effort will actually put many more teen-agers at risk of infection.

And he understood that hers was a well-meant effort to cajole him out of his mood, even more than just a signal of her usual desire.

There wasn't much of me left anymore, anyway, and I thought my death would free up the wasted energies and well-meant efforts that were being wasted in my behalf.

In spite of the well-meant efforts made by her relatives to prevent it, Mrs. Linley committed the very error which it was the most important that she should avoid.

It failed entirely as a well-meant effort in the way of implied reproof.

Unfortunately his well-meant efforts came to little largely because he went too late to parish work.

Phipps' well-meant efforts to ban the annual procession round the statue of William III in College Green increased his unpopularity.

I felt very much alone, almost abandoned, the whole day long despite well-meant efforts from Swan, Sahra and quite a few others.

He was also discouraged by the failure of his well-meant efforts to ensure toleration for Roman Catholics.