Collocations witheffort
These are words often used in combination witheffort.
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advocacy effort
In 2004, after decades of contamination in the village and advocacy efforts for health services, the government built a clinic on the other side of the village.
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all-out effort
This was an all-out effort by the regime, through the determination and initiative of the top leadership, to survive not only domestically but also internationally as an independent nation.
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ambitious effort
In their mixture of amateurish incompleteness and ambitious effort, the pages bear witness to a conflict.
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apparent effort
Bilingual speakers appear to be able to resist the temptation without apparent effort.
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best effort
I made my best effort to rejoin point fragments to identify the minimum number of individual bifacial points present in the collection.
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charitable effort
On the whole, the working class is not fond of charitable effort.
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cleanup effort
The cleanup effort took one month to complete.
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collaborative effort
But decisions about repertory, about instrumental accompaniments, even about how to promote a group, were intended to make a success out of a collaborative effort.
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collective effort
While all the essays in this collection are worthwhile in their own right, the question remains about the precise topic of this collective effort.
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combined effort
Combined effort by the two specialties together can help enhance the quality of these older persons' remaining lives.
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concentrated effort
Failures of large-scale infrastructure require extended periods of concentrated effort to repair, reducing the ability of the system to rapidly recover.
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concerted effort
Although a number of such investigations have been undertaken, to date no concerted effort has been made to consolidate the results within a single framework.
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conscious effort
Unlike their earlier appeals to science, though, this time around actuaries made a conscious effort to practice what the scientists seemed to be preaching.
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conservation effort
An integrated, international conservation effort would presumably need to tackle these challenges in tandem.
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considerable effort
Considerable effort in recent year s has been devoted to under standing the interaction between different regimes of equilibrium flow and the resistive modes.
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continued effort
Communicative acts in dialogue are not results of single utterances but of the continued effort of participants.
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continuing effort
Functioning networks of institutions take a long time to establish and require a continuing effort to maintain.
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continuous effort
Finally, the book is ready for print after a long, continuous effort.
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cooperative effort
In the end, this is what makes the infant into a ' converser ' capable of providing his\\her share of the cooperative effort.
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coordinated effort
Screening programs are a coordinated effort to acquire a grasp of a common disease at an early stage in a specified population.
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defensive effort
Obviously, therefore, our main defensive effort must be made by sea and in the air.
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deliberate effort
Depicting other individuals was a deliberate effort to show interaction in a manner that was beneficial to the ruler.
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desperate effort
Central banks jacked up interest rates in a desperate effort to obtain it, destabilising commercial banks and depressing prices, production and employment.
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determined effort
Indeed, from the middle of the century onwards there was a determined effort, by theorists and composers alike, to make opera more rational.
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diplomatic effort
There will need to be a steady build-up of ground troops, but that should be run in tandem with a continuing extensive diplomatic effort.
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duplication of effort
The studies suggest that there has been enormous duplication of effort internationally.
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enforcement effort
Women's political representation is not the only environmental factor that should affect the bureaucracies' enforcement effort.
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enormous effort
It is therefore limited though it has to be acknowledged what enormous effort has been invested by the authors for producing this very respectable book.
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eradication effort
Developing countries also gained hugely from the eradication effort.
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extensive effort
It will be a milestone in our extensive effort to clarify the brain-mind relationship.
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extra effort
With a small amount of extra effort, students can be asked to extend the example in a variety of ways.
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extraordinary effort
Someone in this case needs to make an extraordinary effort to connect emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually with this young woman.
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fishing effort
Moreover, concentration of the fishing effort on particular age groups or stocks may be neither economically feasible nor healthy for the stocks in question.
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frantic effort
They will go on imposing restriction after restriction and embargo after embargo in a frantic effort to help their present position, lest a worse fate befall them.
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fund-raising effort
There is a genuine fear that money might be diverted from the existing fund-raising effort for local good causes.
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futile effort
It is a futile effort to save a face which is shamed beyond saving.
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genuine effort
This constitutes a moral imperative in any genuine effort at cultural competency.
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herculean effort
The editors have made a herculean effort in realizing this volume which is destined to become a benchmark contribution in this field.
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heroic effort
He has asked this nation to make a truly heroic effort and to face sacrifices which no other country has been prepared to face.
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humanitarian effort
Had it not been for the international humanitarian effort, there would undoubtedly have been many more casualties among the refugees over the past month.
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increased effort
The optimal effort is the one at which the benefits of increased effort are just balanced by their costs.
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initial effort
After an initial effort to make the ban universal around 1760, the opposite and more realistic solution of intermarriage was finally legislated in 1765.
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intense effort
The strengths of classical connectionism on this test derive from its intense effort in addressing empirical phenomena in such domains as language and cognitive development.
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intensive effort
In particular, an intensive effort is under way to find out how the pandemic 1918 strain caused such devastating disease.
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intentional effort
To do otherwise would appear to be an intentional effort to infect straightforward matters of fact with unnecessary value judgments.
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intervention effort
Our interpretation of this observation is that, despite their objections, participants respected the intervention effort and valued being included in it.
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joint effort
It took three years to complete and (to quote its own website) 'was a joint effort of a large number of participants, organizations and individuals'.
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legislative effort
Essentially bill sponsorship in this model is used as a proxy for the overall legislative effort put forth by a senator.
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lobbying effort
They can engage in lobbying themselves and/or form part of a trade association that undertakes the lobbying effort for them.
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marketing effort
Little internationally competitive marketing effort has been needed.
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massive effort
It is clear from that what a massive effort we have to make.
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maximum effort
The maximum acceleration is that which is attained applying the maximum effort when rolling, grade and aerodynamic resistances are overcome.
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minimal effort
Manual inspection of the source code suggests that many other classes could be confined with minimal effort.
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missionary efforts
This conference bears the strong heritages of several missionary efforts, dating back to the postbellum period of the late 19th century, although one church was founded as early as 1681.
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mitigation efforts
Costs and benefits are crucial in motivating mitigation efforts.
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mobilization efforts
First, we examine variables that parties may use when they set out to do canvassing or mobilization efforts.
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modelling effort
The gait analysis and selection is a research area requiring an appreciable modelling effort for the improvement of mobility with legs in unstructured environments.
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modest effort
Even a modest effort just outside the borders of the ranch would, however, result in a marked improvement in the situation.
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monitoring effort
The identification of such points of destination and the initial points of departure, or benchmarks, are also important prerequisites of the monitoring effort.
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noble effort
I believe that history will give us credit for a noble effort, long and patiently sustained.
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ongoing effort
This survey represents an ongoing effort to measure economic freedom across countries.
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organized effort
Aside from online communication, open fan meetings are the most persistent form of organized effort, taking place since the society's inception in 1997.
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outreach efforts
We will need to mobilise all our energies and outreach efforts if we are to bring the current, rather difficult negotiations to a successful conclusion.
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persistent effort
However, if persistent effort toward the goal does not produce adequate progress, then sadness/depression, an internalizing emotion, may result.
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philanthropic effort
This did not put gender inequality at the forefront of its campaigns but sought rather to reform society through the dedicated philanthropic effort of women.
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pioneering effort
His analysis was a creditable pioneering effort which has not received the dissemination it deserves.
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planning effort
The whole phase will cost £3½ million, which suggests the scale of the planning effort.
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preservation effort
The 1920s endeavor to save the structure heralded the citys first historic preservation effort.
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prevention effort
A recent prevention effort based on that contention supports this view.
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promotional effort
Combined with their lack of promotional effort, manufacturers are also making no attempt to tailor contraceptive products and packaging to local market conditions.
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propaganda effort
In spite of a massive propaganda effort, however, the actual result of 3.4 million crowns fell far short of the hoped-for goal of ten million.
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reasonable effort
Guidance also suggests that every reasonable effort to get the patient to stop should be made and that this may include telling their next of kin of the situation.
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recall effort
Of course, as with any survey measurement that requires a recall effort there is likely to be error.
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reconstruction effort
We must therefore ensure that the reconstruction effort focuses on reducing vulnerability; for example, by flood protection and through the appropriate location of new housing.
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recovery effort
However, the recovery effort provided a strong economic stimulus as governments committed resources to importing food and clothing, and to re-starting basic industries.
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recruiting effort
So, for the sake of the young men's careers involved, and for the sake of future recruiting effort, we need candour and realism.
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recruitment effort
Provided that we can maintain and intensify our recruitment effort, the prospect for officer entries is, broadly, quite encouraging.
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redevelopment effort
The daylighting project is the cornerstone of a large redevelopment effort in the downtown.
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reforestation effort
Locals deem the tree a serious nuisance and in their view the reforestation effort has actually reduced available grazing area and livestock productivity in the area over the long term.
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relentless effort
The band's name comes from their relentless effort in trying to make it and willingness to do anything.
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relief effort
Despite his own considerable losses, the man immediately assisted with the relief effort by donating all the coal he owned and also offering boats for transporting evacuees.
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remediation effort
Ideally the ultimate goal of any remediation effort will be to reduce the concentrations of contaminants at the site to those befitting a pristine ecosystem.
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renewed effort
The hard fact is that we must look to renewed effort, increased efficiency and increased productivity for a solution of our difficulties.
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repeated effort
These can reduce the amount of repeated effort, especially when combined with an iterative deepening approach.
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rescue effort
Forty-one per cent of the rescue effort (defined as the total number of boats operating per day) was dedicated to terrestrial live trapping.
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restoration effort
I hope that in any further restoration effort will be made to keep the better houses in the village.
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revitalization effort
In the mid-1990s the bridge began to sag and a revitalization effort began.
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serious effort
This demands a very serious effort from the reader, philosopher and archaeologist alike.
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sincere effort
Textual modifications were not random; rather, such alterations represented a sincere effort to interpret what seemed vague or incomprehensible in an earlier version.
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solo effort
This must not be regarded as a solo effort on my part.
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strenuous effort
Seventy-seven percent of these patients had no symptoms of angina or dyspnea with normal or less strenuous effort.
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subsequent effort
Little subsequent effort which sheds new light on the matter exists, however.
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suppression effort
Local fire suppression efforts were incapable of preventing the damage due to lack of fire personnel and old equipment.
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sustained effort
Would making math and science curricula less demanding, thereby increasing the rate of reinforcement, increase the likelihood of sustained effort?
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systematic effort
However, there has been little systematic effort to examine trajectories of change in either depressive symptoms or peer processes over shorter assessment intervals.
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tireless effort
That was a sequel to tireless effort for many years to bring about disarmament.
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tremendous effort
In the quad representation of a matrix, however, isolating a row of a matrix is not natural and requires a tremendous effort.
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unprecedented effort
We have to make an unprecedented effort in production in order to meet the needs of the war.
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vain effort
We face serious consequences if we succumb to over-stimulating the economy in a vain effort to buy votes.
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valiant effort
It is a valiant effort to make sense of almost all current information on states of consciousness, organizing it according to three simple-sounding dimensions.
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vigorous effort
Vigorous effort and passing can result in water coming into contact with lips.
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voluntary effort
But funding came from the communes, not the central state, and in any case all of local efforts were the result of voluntary effort.
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wasted effort
This seemed almost to guarantee a great deal of wasted effort.
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