make efforts to vs make efforts on

Both phrases are commonly used in English, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Make efforts to' is used when specifying the goal or purpose of the efforts, while 'make efforts on' is used when referring to the area or subject of the efforts.

Last updated: March 24, 2024

make efforts to

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when specifying the goal or purpose of the efforts. It indicates the target or objective that the efforts are directed towards.

Examples:

We need to make efforts to improve our customer service.
She made efforts to learn a new language.

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The Union must make efforts to approximate criminal law and procedures on money laundering and the confiscation of goods.
Commissioner, our farmers will once more have to make efforts to adapt.
It is especially important to make efforts to prevent fraud and money laundering as part of the fight against terrorism also.
A draft recommendation requesting Member States to make efforts to eliminate obstacles in this particular area is under preparation.'
The European Union should make efforts to prevent escalation of the present crisis.
I support this report because it urges Member States to make efforts to prevent their nationals from taking part in illegal fishing activities.
This agency should, however, make efforts to improve its planning and monitoring policies.
Furthermore they must make efforts to attract and maintain qualified staff at every level of managing and implementing EU funds.
Operators need to make efforts to step up their capacity effectively to remove dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs from marine oil.
Operators need to make efforts to step up their capacity to remove dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCBs from marine oil.
Operators need to make efforts to step up their decontamination capacity to remove effectively dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs from fish oil.
I agree with Mr Barroso that the Presidency must make efforts to reach an outcome at the December Council.
In order to ensure continuity of the Management Board's work, all parties represented on it should make efforts to limit the turnover of their representatives.
I call on the Presidency to make efforts to unblock the situation at Council level on this dossier.
This is especially true in the year of equal opportunities, when both at European and at national levels we must make efforts to help those who suffer disadvantages.
We also agree, however, that it must continue to make efforts to apply the agreements, to open up its markets and to create an open climate for investments.
Removing organs and carrying out the transplant, along with post-transplant care, are expensive medical procedures, but every Member State must make efforts to encourage this type of medical procedure.
In the interests of the Korean Peninsula and the wider region, the North and South should make efforts to rebuild confidence in a durable way.
The Parties and the Signatory CARIFORUM States are resolved to make efforts to facilitate trade in goods and services which the Parties consider to be beneficial to the environment.
In June 2001, the Gothenburg European Council made it an urgent matter generally to call upon all those in responsible positions in Algeria to make efforts to bring the present confrontations and violence to an end.

Alternatives:

put efforts into
exert efforts to
strive to
work hard to
try to

make efforts on

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to the area or subject of the efforts. It indicates the specific focus or topic of the efforts.