Effort
Meanings and phrases
effort
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; attempt; endeavor; endeavour; try
- use of physical or mental energy; hard work; elbow grease; exertion; travail; sweat
- a notable achievement; feat; exploit
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; campaign; cause; crusade; drive; movement
fund-raising effort
- a campaign to raise money for some cause; fund-raising campaign; fund-raising drive
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- CPR also helped the war effort with money and jobs.
- As a youth, Werner joined the Polish war effort.
- In 1943 the German war effort was accelerated.
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- As the Orioles' DH, he went 1 for 3 in a losing effort.
- Rhodes faced Kurt Angle at True Legacy in a losing effort.
- He faced Kota Ibushi at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in a losing effort.
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- Many songs were a collaborative effort.
- While Smith tends to write the lyrics and chords, song writing overall is a collaborative effort.
- Many believe that Dads' Gates were a collaborative effort between Dawson and Abbot more than anything.
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- He earned NFC Offensive Player of the Week for his effort against the Redskins.
- Tate followed that performance with a 106-yard effort against the Detroit Lions.
- He earned AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors for his effort against the Saints.
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- The restyling work was a joint effort undertaken in Australia.
- The work is, therefore, a joint effort between the two siblings.
- The joint effort resulted in an innovative self-service stamp vending system.
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- In 1449 Kyoto made one last effort to make the system work.
- Samuel Milroy lead the effort to make Delphi the county seat in May 1828.
- The plant transitioned in the war effort to make tarps for the military during WWII.
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- They involved animals getting food for no effort.
- made no effort to know their human rights impacts; and "C".
- Howe made no effort to attack, much to Washington's surprise.
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- Thus, an effort to improve the F-X followed.
- This was put in place in an effort to improve attendance.
- 737–742 by December 1925 in an effort to improve steaming.
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- The work is, therefore, a joint effort between the two siblings.
- In 1931 a coordinated effort between the Soviet sinologists V. M. Alekseev, A.
- Many believe that Dads' Gates were a collaborative effort between Dawson and Abbot more than anything.
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- Prior to 1970, there was no concerted effort to formally train physicians in its practice in the U.S.
- This was the first concerted effort in getting racers off the streets and onto controlled race tracks.
- The next year, the Dutch sent an ambassador to discuss plans for a concerted effort against the Spaniards.
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- No effort was made to arrest the attackers.
- No effort was made to protect women.
- Over time, an effort was made to recognize Laura Walker for her work.
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- Participants vary in how much time and effort they commit to different domains.
- As a result, "ruisreikäleipä" takes some time and effort to chew down properly.
- This saves time and effort trying to resolve a dispute that may be made moot by the other events.
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- In 1964 he fought against an effort to reduce the Council's power.
- SCBT has also been used in the field of criminal psychology in the effort to reduce recidivism.
- This was done in an effort to reduce cigarette butts and shards from broken alcohol bottles in beaches.
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- There's not much of a plot here, but you go with the flow without making much effort.
- He invested much effort in the development of electric lighting of vehicles and stations.
- Benson employs a relaxing therapy to coax Steckler's memory, succeeding with much effort.
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- Yu Zhijian made every effort to talk to students, but they mostly ignored him.
- He made every effort to help the people by providing canals to irrigate the fields.
- During the earlier frontier wars of 1790-1820, every effort was made to destroy them.
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- ', a collaborative effort to create a national marine mammal health data repository and visualization tool.
- In 2007, the race was lengthened to 228 laps in an effort to create a longer product for time value purposes.
- The "self-conscious" effort to impress must, according to Hoffmann, be divorced from the "self-aware" effort to create.
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- New Zealand also pledged $300,000 in support for the Red Cross relief effort in PNG.
- Following the 2009 Samoa tsunami, Seacology once again started a tsunami relief effort.
- The program is also a poverty relief effort, providing employment in wetland maintenance.
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- Lambert was loth to leave his men without an effort to save them.
- He must distract her with stories about his life in an effort to save himself.
- This was done to show use of old technology in an all out effort to save humanity.
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- The community made an effort to take care of its children.
- Chile has made an effort to expand nontraditional exports.
- He made an effort to find classical forms that were more authentic.
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- The film marks Mailer's first effort into film-making.
- His first effort was on the short film "Hooray for Sandbox Land".
- Additionally, "Cry Pretty" marks Underwood's first effort as producer.
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- After Culpeper’s Rebellion, the lords made a more serious effort to get control of the colony.
- Kimberly informs the Carters of their grandson's well being in an effort to get pay back at Jo.
- This was an effort to get private sector developers to take over the construction of NCs in HDB towns.
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- When they challenge him, he kills all three with little effort.
- The FBI initiated an investigation, but little effort was put into it.
- Adjusting the height of this platform is very easy and takes very little effort.
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- Traditionally music from Tuva was only a solo effort.
- Stero-Lion released his first solo effort, "Lion Paw" in 2008.
- Cohn released his third solo effort, "Burning the Daze", in 1998.
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- The move is an effort to prevent, detect and respond to prison rape more effectively.
- He then led them against the Germanic tribes, perhaps in an effort to prevent future mutiny.
- Lime was used on the floors and walls in an effort to prevent insects from entering the living space.
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- of starting tractive effort, and 175,000 lbf.
- The calculated tractive effort was 76,154 lb.
- They are rated at continuous tractive effort ( starting).
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- The Demitarian Diet is an effort to bring conscious awareness to where meat comes from and how it is produced.
- In 2006, restoration work began in an effort to bring the house up to a standard worthy of monumental protection.
- She has been an advocate of environmental issues and in the effort to bring the 2020 Summer Olympics to Minnesota.
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- Both parties agreed to this, in an effort to keep costs down.
- During his stay in Istanbul, he made an effort to keep up with his regular lifestyle for a while.
- In an effort to keep expenses down, the team reportedly used just nine footballs throughout the season.
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- This was an overall effort to increase Black resistance to the Vietnam war and the draft.
- In an effort to increase revenues, the state often turned to the creation of new offices.
- In an effort to increase visitor traffic, the museum was relocated to downtown Albany in 2012.
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- Once again, a great effort began to raise funds for their redemption.
- Abo has made a great effort to preserve the memory of her late husband.
- Though he had a great effort, he lost in overtime 1–0, when a backhand shot slipped by taken from Jonathan Toews.
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- In 1989, Paparian led the effort to declare Vanadzor, Pasadena's fourth Sister City.
- In that capacity he led the effort in 1989 to set state guidelines for felony sentencing.
- In Congress, Henry Clay led the effort to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States.
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- The largest international effort to promote carbon farming is “four per 1,000”, led by France.
- In an effort to promote herself, she went with her husband to the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.
- There is an effort to promote Prometheus exposition format into a standard known as OpenMetrics.
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- Finishing with 'A little more effort would be nice.
- This in turn allows for more effort and better outcomes from these students.
- Developers now make more effort to integrate mobile devices with the ERP system.
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- It was destined to be the band's most commercially successful effort.
- The NAACP set up a precedent-setting national boycott of the film, likely seen as the most successful effort.
- In the post–World War II era, the French made a concerted and successful effort to develop a homegrown aircraft industry.
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- At the time, a renewed effort to build a city in the area was made; these plans never materialized.
- The community responded to this gesture with a strenuous effort to build financial support for the new hospital.
- She then made career moves between Los Angeles and New York City in an effort to build the structure of her calling.
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- He made an effort to find classical forms that were more authentic.
- After Homer leaves the orphanage, so does she in an effort to find him.
- Orders were made to Volvo and Hino in an effort to find a better vehicle.
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- These measures were an effort to avoid Commodore's "toy-store" computer image created during the Tramiel era.
- In the same month, Álvaro traveled with King Henry to Valladolid, possibly as a last-ditch effort to avoid a war.
- In an effort to avoid harm to the animal, 33 special animal migration passages have been built beneath the railway.
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- Scoutreach is an effort to help overcome past problems in the program.
- There has been an effort to help employ a greater number of the Romani population.
- He made every effort to help the people by providing canals to irrigate the fields.
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- Charles Bukowski, would drink there in a conscious effort to imitate their role models.
- This is partly because of their conscious effort to "pioneer" Scotland, by sending members there.
- So yeah, it was definitely a conscious effort to make sure that I stay close to home on some records."
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- He is known for his effort to establish stereoscopic movies in the 1920s.
- He also pioneered Litton's effort to establish a plant in Springfield, Missouri.
- CARD made an effort to establish a research culture and develop leadership at the IOE.
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- In 2005, the Austin music community banded together in an effort to raise money for Willie's treatment.
- This walk took 297 days and was in an effort to raise funds and awareness for the Livestrong Foundation.
- A coordinated effort to raise the awareness and understanding of what supply chain management is and its function in modern business practices.
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- A major effort was the production of propaganda stamps.
- A major effort is necessary to prepare hundreds of costumes, too.
- A major effort was on at its Jhanjra mines to produce 3 – 3.5 million tonnes per annum.
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- Hendrik Lorentz spent considerable effort along these lines.
- When modems were slow, considerable effort was put into developing the most efficient protocols and display systems possible.
- After considerable effort to locate him, they confront him on the street, to which he responds with additional legal threats.
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- However, it makes no special effort to protect human life or property and will turn against its human allies on a whim.
- The Tunisian government makes an active effort to protect its Jewish minority now and visibly supports its institutions.
- As a result, she puts on a cold, aloof front in an effort to protect herself from her feelings and to mask her own insecurity.
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- He made his in-ring debut for the promotion on June 5 in a losing effort against Daisuke Sekimoto.
- He wrestled on the May 26 episode of "Superstars" as a face in a losing effort against Curt Hawkins.
- She helped Skallagrímur to the Icelandic Cup finals in 2017, scoring 11 points in a losing effort against Keflavík.
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- Allen also served as a director of the War Damage Corporation, a government effort to provide insurance against war-related damage.
- From 1938 to 1948, during World War II, the Fund worked in an effort to provide assistance to emigres trying to relocate to America.
- Now, the three stages could be split among various companies, in an effort to provide fair accessibility to high voltage transmission.
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- Babbit makes a last-ditch effort to stop the heroes by using a giant robot.
- Major Disaster, in an effort to stop Despero, turned Times Square into smoking rubble.
- Finally, the mayor and the police exert every effort to stop Pendergast and Kelly's investigation.
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- Now he was now about to lead another rescue effort.
- An air-and-sea rescue effort was initiated.
- The siege ended after a rescue effort by the Indonesian Navy on 1 May 2011.
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- However, despite Sadler's best effort, the club were later relegated to League Two.
- Of course, it is always possible to simply drop packets in a network with a best effort delivery strategy.
- He awarded "Prayer for the Halcyon Fear" four out of five stars, calling it the band's best effort to date.
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- Project 640 had been the PRC's indigenous effort to develop ABM capability.
- Also in recent years, there has been an effort to develop HDIs for cancer therapy.
- In 2009, ISC started an effort to develop a new version of the software suite, called BIND10.
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- It formed part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war.
- According to the Trianon Key, members assisted with the war effort during World War II.
- Like other cities across the country, Dayton was heavily involved in the war effort during World War II.
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- Abo has made a great effort to preserve the memory of her late husband.
- Recently there was an effort to preserve a strain found on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
- This change was part of a service-wide effort to preserve the lineage of the Air Force's most honored wings.
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- The CANDU development effort has gone through four major stages over time.
- Following this development effort, Executive Order 13514 was signed in 2009.
- This development effort was made partly to allow IBM to compete with Amdahl UTS.
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- The agricultural sector sought additional research effort.
- It directed an intensive research effort.
- The main focus of his research effort in this area is material preparation and characterisation.
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- made no effort to know their human rights impacts; and "C".
- Howe made no effort to attack, much to Washington's surprise.
- Despite Venice having much sympathy there, they made no effort to seize the fleet.
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- Brown therefore made the attack across the Niagara into the main effort.
- Gough proposed an attack on 9 November but preferred to delay the main effort.
- Julia's House began with its main effort on providing care in the families' own homes.
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- For "Unsung Heroes", released in 1981, the band changed their name to The Dregs in an effort to gain more commercial appeal.
- On 18 July 1936, after the Nationalist uprising, the prisons were opened in an effort to gain fighters to put down the uprising.
- In 1946, he made a final effort to gain a job in baseball when he contacted new Yankees boss MacPhail, but he was sent a rejection letter.
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- The effort failed despite an intensive lobbying effort.
- The strenuous effort failed and the War started in April 1861.
- In October, a combined Franco-American effort failed to recapture Savannah.
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- Many believe that Dads' Gates were a collaborative effort between Dawson and Abbot more than anything.
- The Project represents a collaborative effort between professors, students, labor unions, and community members.
- The first dedicated geodetic satellite was ANNA-1B, a collaborative effort between NASA, the DoD, and other civilian agencies.
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- Sifton was selected Premier in an effort to restore party unity, and his first cabinet reflected that.
- This has been done in an effort to restore salmon populations specifically but with other species in mind.
- Starting in 2002, TVA undertook an effort to restore Unit 1 to operational status, spending $1.8 billion USD to do so.
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- Ross had 14 kills and 19 digs in the winning effort.
- He teamed with Shad in a winning effort.
- Jim served as Team Captain in their silver medal winning effort.
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- This information can help potential attackers by increasing the feasibility of an attack, and/or by reducing the effort required.
- During the 100 years that the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court "rode circuit", many justices complained about the effort required.
- Eventually the British government decided that the campaign in Sudan was not worth the effort required and left a garrison in Suakin.
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- "The Book of Morris Johnson" was the first single off her sophomore effort.
- From there, King headed back into the studio to work on her sophomore effort, "Legs to Make Us Longer".
- For their sophomore effort, "Renaissance", the Association recruited Jerry Yester to replace Boettcher as producer.
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- Hellenistic culture did not supplant native Egyptian culture, as the Ptolemies supported time-honored traditions in an effort to secure the loyalty of the populace.
- In an effort to secure work, Connell entered the competition for the Auckland Cathedral (1940) and narrowly missed selection, gaining second prize with a Swedish style neo-classical plan.
- Suffering debt, terminal illness and isolation from the mainstream scientific community by his last years, Page contrived one final effort to secure credit and status for his achievements.
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- As a supporter of the Jewish Foundation, Noddle is also the 2009 chair for the Twin Cities United Way's fundraising effort.
- An initial on-line fundraising effort in 2013 on Seedmatch raised €500,000 in 2 hours and 35 minutes, setting a new European Union record.
- After a major fundraising effort led by Baker, Zen Center purchased the land—which contained a rundown resort and mineral springs in 1967.
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- This effort led to the invention of the telephone.
- It was built in 1938 in an effort led by city pioneer Nellie Coffman.
- This effort led to the establishment, in 1907, of the court of criminal appeal.
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- The work is, therefore, a joint effort between the two siblings.
- Thus, the invention of Cubism was a joint effort between Picasso and Braque, then residents of Montmartre, Paris.
- Swiss German University was established in the year 2000 as a joint effort between private investors from Germany and Indonesia.
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- Dave Smith's company found interest in a cooperative effort with Roland.
- Under a cooperative effort involving nearly 40 institutions, thousands of bones were recovered between 1960 and 1965.
- GCCC owns more than east of Campus Drive, which has been developed in a cooperative effort with the City of Garden City.
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- This means that the effort to maintain the links between thematic data and associated administrative units is reduced to a minimum.
- Some interpreted his reversal as an effort to maintain the Court's judicial independence by alleviating the political pressure to create a court more friendly to the New Deal.
- During this period, the abbey went to great effort to maintain its independence from the local authorities, including the Bishop of Senlis, in whose diocese they were situated.
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- While the band's previous effort, 2005's "Nothing Is Sound", was termed "darker," "Oh!
- It was better organized than the previous effort; a large fleet and plentiful stocks of food were used.
- This marked En Vogue's lowest peak for an album by then and was a considerable drop from their previous effort "EV3" (1997).
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- He is ultimately defeated by the combined effort of the 15 Kamen Riders.
- In a combined effort of Doubront and the bullpen, Boston shut-out the team from the NL West.
- It was due to the combined effort of these two people that led to the establishment of the museum.
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- In 1449 Kyoto made one last effort to make the system work.
- Nevertheless, Peter made one last effort to "reclaim" his son.
- Finally in 2001 Red Tide released their last effort "Type II".
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- This spurs her family members to attempt to reform themselves in an effort to win her back.
- Ptolemy XIII sent Pompey's head to Caesar in an effort to win his favor, but instead secured him as a furious enemy.
- Swinton made a serious effort to win election in this campaign and received a substantial vote, but was ultimately defeated.
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- The authorities did not make an effort in finding him and he was never seen in Arizona again.
- He became a material and mortal being, and now he must make an effort to save himself and all of the original creation.
- "If you make an effort to not put the pedals in the order you're meant to, then you'll end up with something new sounding.
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- Jacqueline Kennedy led an effort to redecorate and restore the White House.
- He led an effort with several New York friends and other parties to purchase an NFL franchise.
- After Dorgon died in 1650, Jirgalang led an effort to clean the government of Dorgon's supporters.
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- which took a lot of effort and visits to India.
- Since RMS took over the seat, a lot of effort been materialize and improved.
- Jacob van Strij put a lot of effort and devotion in creating his winter scenes.
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- Their unsuccessful effort cost them 2,400 DDM.
- The Spanish made an unsuccessful effort to reconquer Jolo in 1602.
- Wells's voyage to America took place in the midst of his unsuccessful effort to reform the Fabian Society.
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- This ongoing effort incorporates both new research locations and sampling sites dating back to the 1940s.
- In December 1977, NTCC Pearl Harbor was disestablished and absorbed into NTCC Makalapa in an ongoing effort to consolidate communications on Oahu.
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- The next studio effort, "Recent Discoveries", was recorded in 1993.
- "Cry Pretty" is a superb studio effort, and it garners an A rating."
- In 2014, the band began recording their second studio effort, "Lurid Glow".
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- It took a huge effort to ensure that the correct people were elected.
- The personal files of all Church of England clergy since the 1950s are being audited in an effort to ensure no cover-up.
- The Tamil politicians made a concerted effort to ensure that Kanyakumari was incorporated into the Tamil-majority Madras State (now Tamil Nadu).
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- The largest international effort to promote carbon farming is “four per 1,000”, led by France.
- The Protocols are part of a wider international effort aimed at protecting the Mediterranean Sea, "i.e."
- In 2012, the Bisotun Cultural Heritage Center organized an international effort to re-examine the inscription.
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- Chile has made an effort to expand nontraditional exports.
- The in 2008 initiated an effort to expand open access in order to "exhaust the potential of digital publishing."
- Since 1989, the Muftiate has made effort to expand interreligious relations between Muslims and religious groups in Bulgaria.
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- "I'm just like all the other guys, doing my best in a team effort."
- The suit's body design was a team effort by brothers Koei Yagi and Kanji Yagi.
- He picked up basketball and squash, too, but it was the team effort in football that brought him out to the field every evening.
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- Although the Spanish military effort went well on Hispaniola, it did not so in Europe.
- Although the Spanish military effort went well on Hispaniola, it did not so in Europe (see War of the Pyrenees).
- The blast occurred at a munitions factory that was manufacturing explosives for Britain's First World War military effort.