noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desperate effort
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A desperate effort was made to reach an agreement.
a futile attempt/effort
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a futile attempt to save the paintings from the flames
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My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.
a rescue attempt/effort
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One fire fighter was severely burned in the rescue attempt.
a team effort (= when members of a team achieve something together )
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It was a great team effort and all the crew did a magnificent job.
a vain attempt/bid/effort
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People close their windows at night in a vain attempt to shut out the sound of gunfire.
abortive attempt/effort
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an abortive attempt to reform local government
an effort of will (= a determined effort to do something you do not want to do )
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With a great effort of will, she resisted the temptation to look at the letter.
an unsuccessful attempt/bid/effort
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We made several unsuccessful attempts to tackle the problem.
attempt/effort to persuade sb
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Leo wouldn’t agree, despite our efforts to persuade him.
be worth the time/effort/work
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It was a great evening, and definitely worth all the hard work.
brave effort/attempt
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the brave efforts of the medical staff to save his life
combined effort/action/operation
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Dinner was a combined effort.
concentrate your efforts/attention/energy/mind etc on sth
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I’m concentrating my efforts on writing my autobiography.
determined attempt/effort
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She was making a determined effort to give up smoking.
diplomatic efforts
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Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting began on October 15th.
direct...efforts
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I want to direct my efforts more towards my own projects.
earnest attempt/effort etc
efforts...rewarded
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The team have worked hard and their efforts have been rewarded with success.
enormous effort
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The team made an enormous effort .
exert effort
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We exerted every effort to get there on time.
expend energy/effort/time/resources etc
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People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.
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Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.
focus your attention/mind/efforts on sth
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She tried to focus her mind on her work.
frantic effort/attempt
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Despite our frantic efforts, we were unable to save the boy’s life.
heroic efforts
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her heroic efforts to save her family
joint effort (= two or more people worked on it together )
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The meal was a joint effort .
made...concerted effort
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Libraries have made a concerted effort to attract young people.
pioneering work/research/efforts etc
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the pioneering work of NASA scientists
puny effort/attempt
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a puny attempt at humour
relief efforts
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In areas severely affected by the earthquake, it is difficult to coordinate relief efforts.
solo effort
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a solo effort
strenuous effort
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Sherry’s been making a strenuous effort to lose weight.
superhuman power/strength/effort etc
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It will require a superhuman effort to get the job done on time.
tremendous effort
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She was making a tremendous effort to appear calm.
turn your attention/thoughts/efforts etc to sth/sb
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Many investors have turned their attention to opportunities abroad.
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Phil turned his gaze towards the older man.
valiant effort
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Tarr threw himself in front of a train in a valiant effort to save the child.
war effort
with a minumum of effort (= with very little effort )
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The house could be restored with a minimum of effort.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concerted
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She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
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However, the fall was due more to commodity price rises and the strength of the dollar than any concerted national effort .
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Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
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I feel that I should make a more concerted effort to leave my profession and find a new and more satisfying career.
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This change is part of a concerted effort to raise our profile with our international customers.
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Meanwhile, ministers rallied in a concerted effort to denounce rumours of a rift between Mr Lawson and Margaret Thatcher.
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With one concerted effort , they heaved the boar out of the water and up on to the bank.
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These techniques are not freely available everywhere, but with concerted effort they could be.
conscious
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What varies, and varies dramatically, is the conscious effort with which they are identified and undertaken.
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Accepting our human limitations in these high-pressure times, though, takes conscious effort .
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This requires a conscious effort , because it is clear that discrimination is more often unintentional than intentional.
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At each juncture, there is a breakdown in attention because the work requires sustained conscious effort .
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Make a conscious effort to drink less tea and coffee - about one or two cups per day.
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To break out of its solitude, it has had to make frequent and conscious efforts .
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The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it.
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Making no conscious effort to save or throw away old tickets, they become collectors.
considerable
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When a large number of products are involved this considerable effort may not be worthwhile until all overhead allocations are routinely reviewed.
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Qin Shihuang devoted considerable resources and effort in trying to track down this miracle plant for his own use.
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This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period.
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For many patients, those simple morning tasks took considerable effort and help from staff members.
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This was a sense of order that had to be worked hard for and was created with considerable effort .
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He appears a rather humble man; but he expends considerable effort telling his full story.
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Implementation next year will save considerable administrative effort at head office.
desperate
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Then, with a desperate effort threw himself bodily away.
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The independence wars are not freak events but desperate efforts at cultural survival.
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Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods.
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In their distress, factories and workers engage in barter in a desperate effort to survive.
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Riven hung on to his mount's bridle grimly whilst it bucked and reared in a desperate effort to get away.
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A desperate effort was made to reach agreement.
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In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants.
enormous
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She had returned to bed and Belinda could see that she was making an enormous effort to remain calm.
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The same freedom from job limits that unleashes enormous effort also encourages people to overextend themselves.
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Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.
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It is perhaps not fortuitous that Stein made the enormous effort to revive the publication when he did.
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To do the work requires an enormous amount of effort beavering away among old records, checking, copying and encoding.
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But no one denies that it will take enormous effort to keep her stimulated and well.
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Then, with an enormous effort of will, he followed them.
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This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition.
good
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However, objects decay despite our best efforts to conserve them.
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Or maybe they disapproved of or were indifferent to your best efforts .
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I'd only be satisfied if people knew about it and made the best possible efforts to save it.
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Football is a team game; offense and defense must work together to produce the best effort .
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Also, his best efforts did not seem sufficient to her.
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The best planned change efforts can be undone by a coalition of powerful executives who want to protect the status quo.
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People withhold their best efforts if they see little relationship between what they do and how they are rewarded.
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The folks at the Discovery Channel are making the best effort at pioneering original content for the Web.
great
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Many of these emotions energize greater effort but others negate effort and lead to dissatisfaction, stress and withdrawal.
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He held himself half sitting up with great effort .
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Mould lifted them with great effort .
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We accomplish little except as we get into a current which will bear us on without great effort .
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At the same time the government has made great efforts to centralise the control of information.
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What initially sounded like a simple experiment in fact required a great deal of effort .
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Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs.
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Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.
heroic
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Daisy, ever hopeful and optimistic, however, still made heroic efforts to win Perdita round.
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Despite heroic efforts by the scientists, these virgin-born turkeys rarely progressed beyond the stage of simple embryos.
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At times, by dint of heroic effort , the Elves achieved a breathing space and cleared their lands.
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It was a heroic effort to try to evaluate business units using some notion of market valuation.
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In gratitude for his heroic efforts over Henry the police had apprehended Duggie on the towpath.
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Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
joint
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This joint effort by a multicompany committee produced some of the best materials on the subject yet produced.
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Country concerns: Trimdon children are making a joint effort to improve wildlife in the countryside around their schools.
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The present book is the joint effort of our chosen specialized fields.
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It's a joint effort by the council, health services, local businesses and volunteers ... the whole community.
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In fact, the most successful programs are joint efforts between a source of training and a source of employment.
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See it as a joint effort .
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The joint effort has produced remote control fuel-rod exchangers and automatic inspection systems for radioactive welded pipes.
strenuous
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Many think that in spite of strenuous efforts by Mill, utilitarianism can not really do justice to the concept of justice.
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Index funds avoid making strenuous and expensive efforts to pick stocks that are expected to beat the market.
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Despite the strenuous efforts that were made each time to prevent them, accidents would happen.
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His father emphasized strenuous effort to achieve goals and total obedience to those in authority, and he ranted about corrupt politicians.
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This document asks doctors to avoid making strenuous efforts to prolong your life if the eventual outcome is known to be terminal.
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Some companies are making strenuous efforts to increase the proportion of women at all levels of employment.
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The government made strenuous efforts to upgrade the quality of the teaching profession.
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Try thinking of a single international agreement that countries have made more strenuous efforts than were strictly necessary to implement.
tremendous
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I would like to thank staff at all levels for their tremendous efforts which contributed to this success.
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I would see the tremendous effort it took her to cook this dinner.
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With a tremendous effort of will, he straightened up and stood against the wall.
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But Tom made a tremendous effort to behave in the proper way.
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It was a tremendous effort showing some remarkable talent amongst us and contained a powerful presentation of the gospel.
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He was making a tremendous effort to appear calm, if possible to be calm.
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With a tremendous effort Ruth forced her eyes open.
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It takes a tremendous effort to stop, so: Be determined.
■ NOUN
relief
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More tremors hit Cairo More earth tremors have hit Cairo impeding the relief effort following the major earthquake.
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In a regional disaster such as a flood or earthquake, there was no way to coordinate relief efforts .
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A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort .
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But sending out supplies is just part of the relief effort .
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This factor, together with the severe damage caused to the roads and power supplies, greatly hampered relief efforts .
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But the escalating crisis may now force Western leaders to use military air power to protect relief efforts .
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The Soviet relief effort is also employing aircraft.
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No relief effort will work if war and politics get in the way.
war
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We also found a whole batch of papers which we thought might be vital to the war effort .
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Ogontz, like the rest of the United States, was drawn into the war effort .
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With its establishment in the Seven Years War as an integral part of the war effort at sea their victory became decisive.
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The mobilization of large numbers of white males for the war effort in-creased apprehension among the population at home.
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They planted a tree to replace one of the hundreds they'd chopped down to help the war effort .
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She was not sorry when she learned that he was about to be shipped out to join the war effort .
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A book on the First World War made no mention of women's contribution to the war effort at home or abroad.
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Only owners of vehicles vital to the war effort are able to obtain new tyres.
■ VERB
bring
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Nu's efforts to bring the two men together were only partially successful.
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Every effort in life brings its contrary effort to oppose it, because it is the way of life.
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The cartel was prepared to make a special effort to bring him home early.
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But even a moderate discount is expected to provide a massive jumpstart to the efforts to bring the Internet to the classroom.
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The first efforts to bring videodisc to the consumer market flopped badly.
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The campaign had some of the same characteristics as the remarkable group effort that brought home the stranded astronauts of Apollo 13.
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She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself.
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I was hoping that our humble efforts would help bring S.B. back.
concentrate
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Instead, George concentrated his efforts on the few remaining furry areas on an otherwise bare bear.
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He concentrated his efforts on the posterior aspect of the eye and established the ophthalmic exam.
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But they were more successful in the target seats on which they had concentrated their efforts .
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Amelio has said Apple will concentrate development efforts on the Internet and multimedia, streamline operations and pare its unwieldy product lineup.
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How much might we learn by concentrating ecological effort , expertise and funding on our own backyards?
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That takes a lot of concentrated effort .
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So Microsoft is now concentrating its efforts on a product customers do want to buy: Windows.
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The global comparisons concentrate their efforts on the regularities that hold across a large sample.
continue
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The image of the war that I sketched earlier continues to color the efforts of many honest people.
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The plan also says republics should continue their efforts to sell land to peasants.
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The liberal politicians sigh with relief and continue their efforts to enlarge the welfare state.
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They agreed to continue their efforts to improve their social life and to discuss openly any disagreements or suspicions which cropped up.
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In this mission, Momich continues to make every effort to be responsive to and sensitive of his neighbors.
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As the United Nations continue their efforts to find a peace in a troubled land.
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I continue my efforts and stand behind what I first proposed.
direct
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But how best to direct our efforts for improvement is bound up with our perceptions of the reasons for the differences.
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A former Thompson campaign worker, Mary Crutchfield, 30, is directing the Dole effort in that state.
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We are committed to prudent exploration and will direct efforts to ventures which offer significant potential.
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This focus can be used to direct all recruitment efforts .
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Negotiations with Moda'i Initially, Peres directed his efforts towards winning the support of small orthodox religious parties.
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In the post-war period Moscow directed much effort towards overcoming its agricultural inferiority vis-à-vis the West, especially the United States.
help
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The very pleasant Dias family who own the hotel will make great efforts to help you with any activities in Goa.
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He had tried to ignore her and go on in an effort to help the girl.
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But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe.
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Today, you need a coordinated effort to help you achieve success.
improve
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She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
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The panel has met twice in an effort to work out improved procedures.
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Motor industry analysts say Rover's upturn is partly down to efforts to improve its image.
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Yet, as this chapter demonstrates, school-to-work can contribute to broader efforts to improve schools.
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As a result it is often difficult to analyse the errors of a probabilistic system in an effort to improve its performance.
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An effort was made to improve the morale and morals of the army.
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Meanwhile, residential social work is hedged about with overt and unspoken rules in any effort to improve matters.
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Meanwhile the Government has promised to reintroduce hospital matrons in an effort to improve the quality of nursing.
involve
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It must involve the minimum of effort . 2 Replicability.
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And it almost always involves an effort integrated with the efforts of others to form a combined final product.
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To create a sound involves a huge corporate effort .
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The proactive approach involves considerably more effort but is more likely to produce a positive result.
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Clinton and Gore became involved in the effort when the California project was in the planning stages.
keep
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The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table, diligent and creative.
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Biblical movies usually wind up epic in scope in spite of every effort to keep them small.
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Chandra Shekhar's efforts at keeping his minority government afloat ended in March 1991.
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But Schwartz was undeterred in his efforts to keep Worldwide Plaza on a shortlist of three possible buildings to move to.
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Coventry-born Painter, 21, sensed trouble soon after the start and made repeated efforts to keep the headgear in place.
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For C-Span, books coverage is all part of an effort to keep the public informed about current events.
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The parole system has been making efforts to keep former convicts out of trouble.
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But no one denies that it will take enormous effort to keep her stimulated and well.
make
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If a shop's good enough, it's worth making a little effort to get to.
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Va., has announced that he intends to make an effort today to assure continued rail passenger service for West Virginia.
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For the sake of your health make a determined effort to stop smoking.
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The passages and narrow stairs made the effort very difficult, necessitating a change in the arrangements.
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If you do then we hope that you will make every effort to come.
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If you enlist them effectively these people will make extraordinary efforts to advance new visions and possibilities.
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Parcelforce will make every effort to deliver a parcel.
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As the number of blacks increased alarmingly in the colonies, some southern colonists made efforts to control the slave trade.
persuade
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Fewer than 200 people took part in the trial, despite efforts to persuade more homeowners to get involved.
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In an effort to persuade cells to respond, even more insulin is released.
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Despite Dycarbas's efforts to persuade Eustathius and command Emilia, they can not moderate their behaviour.
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William Reilly's efforts to persuade the Administration to agree to sign was reportedly the prime focus of tension between them.
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I shall not abandon the effort to persuade you otherwise.
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When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.
put
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Know the subject inside out, putting in that extra effort even if it means reading late and waking early.
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But Louisa did not put in that extra effort .
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It either makes you appreciate what you've got and put even more effort in.
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We put our best efforts into doing our best work for it.
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At best, they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero's grand design.
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Council also thanked those members of staff who had put considerable effort into running the events.
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Husbands may put even more effort and hours into employment outside the home to fill the void.
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It was really good gliding around the time hardly having to put any effort into it at all.
redouble
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We redoubled our efforts to control the flood of water that gushes down our field from the mountains behind.
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You will to the utmost maintain a middle attitude and redouble your efforts to carry out our policy.
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But Sheffield, who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward, simply redoubled their efforts .
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When the United States intervened, the Front redoubled its efforts .
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The company is redoubling efforts to make its young advertising salesforce more professional.
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An appropriate response, it seemed, would have been for the company to redouble its efforts to improve its own offering.
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But the 90-strong band of pensioners are determined not to be down hearted and they have redoubled their fund raising efforts .
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When Chutra saw that I was laughing, he redoubled his efforts until we were at war with hundreds of monkeys.
reduce
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These disasters are an expected pan of the system, although strenuous efforts are made to reduce the frequency of the occurrences.
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Also, construction sites, mines, farms and landfills will be required to boost their efforts to reduce dust.
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The dispute has left the bipartisan efforts to reduce the deficit in, at least temporary, tatters.
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This may be an effort to reduce the impact of whatever case Starr does bring or to intimidate him against bringing one.
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It is subversive to companies that sell remediation-which explains why solid waste companies often block efforts to reduce the volume of garbage.
require
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The potential for divergent interpretations of visible metaphors, requiring relatively little resolving effort , is fairly minimal.
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Also, construction sites, mines, farms and landfills will be required to boost their efforts to reduce dust.
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Elias noted that to adopt this approach in our work requires a special effort of detachment.
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In fact, the new conditions of work require a coordinated effort and activities that are much more proactive and far-reaching.
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Taking a stronger interest in birds requires more effort .
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At each juncture, there is a breakdown in attention because the work requires sustained conscious effort .
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This requires a conscious effort , because it is clear that discrimination is more often unintentional than intentional.
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But that will require a major effort .
reward
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Unions at the car factory say they are delighted that bosses have rewarded workers for their efforts with major investment.
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They gave bonuses of up to $ 1, 000 per person to reward outstanding group effort .
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The sailors rewarded Taff for his efforts with several packets of cigarettes.
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Although well able to acclimatise to most aquarium conditions most Rasboras will reward any efforts made to accommodate their particular requirements.
support
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The clause is relatively mild, requiring international agencies to commit themselves to support eradication efforts .
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Since my first days in the Congress, I have supported efforts to turn off the faucet of big-money campaign contributions.
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Some of the Act's underlying principles can support efforts to overcome suspicion between travellers and welfare authorities.
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The Human Rights Campaign is supporting an effort by Sen.
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The military called on all citizens' to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this.
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We need to support teachers in their efforts to steer our children in this direction.
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He also angered some colleagues by supporting efforts to strip Sen.
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In a widely supported effort that ended in December, black leaders, including the Rev.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a last-ditch attempt/effort etc
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Despite his bulk, he jumped several fences in a last-ditch attempt to escape.
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Horrified by his latest intentions, they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself.
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Last night, Mr Jones said he was involved in a last-ditch effort to save the unit.
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Munich had inspired a last-ditch attempt to bring down Chamberlain and save the peace.
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Not as a second-rate effort or a last-ditch effort.
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So finally, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the exercise as a whole, the following workshop activity was developed.
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The Republican victories came despite a last-ditch effort by the president to help Democratic candidates.
be a waste of time/money/effort etc
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An unrealistically low offer is a waste of time.
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As I said, many of these divisions of investigation will be a waste of time.
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But it was a waste of time.
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He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time.
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I feel annoyed, it is a waste of time.
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Marx thought that scholarly contemplation was a waste of time.
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Which was a waste of time really, because all I wanted to do was join Granpa on the barrow.
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While some thought that they did a good job, a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time.
bend your mind/efforts to sth
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But Mrs Totteridge was clearly bending her mind to other things.
collaborative effort/work/project etc
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But from the start, feature animation was a collaborative effort.
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Combined with virtual reality capabilities, the team can design its own ideal collaborative work space without the constraints of physical reality.
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One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work.
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Since their Nobel lectures describe one collaborative effort, I suggest that we listen to them without interruption.
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The activities would demand collaborative work, role allocation and sharing.
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The early deadline gave little time for meetings and collaborative effort, or a very considered response to the new timetabling arrangements.
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The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
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When it came time for his second album, he decided to make it a collaborative effort.
concerted effort/action/attack etc
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As part of a concerted effort to reinvigorate residential communities, 2, 000 new houses have sprung up since 1990.
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He said the pledge was meaningless unless a concerted effort was made to find legislative time for outstanding recommendations.
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However, with a concerted effort, this research could be completed within 2 years.
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If we are going to maintain the modern world, then concerted action for the future is urgently needed.
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Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
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She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
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The end of the story, of course, is that the students' concerted efforts around the nation worked.
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This change is part of a concerted effort to raise our profile with our international customers.
conscious effort/decision/attempt etc
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Accepting our human limitations in these high-pressure times, though, takes conscious effort.
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And each time the child has to make a new conscious effort like that, there is an opportunity to lose concentration.
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I made a conscious decision to do more than persevere in the remaining years I have with my voice.
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In both examples, a conscious attempt has been made-to segment the market. 11.
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It's a conscious decision and I think it's important that men understand a woman who is offering an alternative lifestyle.
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Just lately I have made a conscious effort to really look at the book.
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Other subjects - like calculus or computing - can not be learned without some conscious effort.
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What varies, and varies dramatically, is the conscious effort with which they are identified and undertaken.
full/top marks for effort/trying/persistence etc
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You had to give Anthony top marks for persistence, she thought to herself.
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You had to give the woman full marks for persistence.
redouble your efforts
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Society should redouble its efforts to give everyone equal opportunities.
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An appropriate response, it seemed, would have been for the company to redouble its efforts to improve its own offering.
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But Sheffield, who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward, simply redoubled their efforts.
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Instead of rethinking their programme, they redoubled their efforts to implement it.
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The punishment, as it were, is so severe that they redouble their efforts to avoid encountering it again.
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We redoubled our efforts to control the flood of water that gushes down our field from the mountains behind.
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When Chutra saw that I was laughing, he redoubled his efforts until we were at war with hundreds of monkeys.
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When the United States intervened, the Front redoubled its efforts.
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You will to the utmost maintain a middle attitude and redouble your efforts to carry out our policy.
spare no expense/effort
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Branson spared no expense in getting Event off the ground.
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He is totally dedicated to his calling, his art, and spares no expense to fulfil it.
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It attracted more retail savings than even the government, which spares no effort to tap the market.
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Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had spared no expense to feed the multitude.
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She was often ill, and Hubert spared no effort to make her well again.
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They spared no expense when the New York Public Library was built at the turn of the century.
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We spared no expense in preparing ourselves for a long strike and the decertification of the unions.
wasted journey/trip/effort etc
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As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancing productivity.
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By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
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If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip, and Montgomery would not be amused.
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It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.
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Not a wasted journey, after all, but she was anxious to carry on.
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Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
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Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
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What a ridiculously wasted effort this was, Bill.
work/effort etc involved in doing sth
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A further disadvantage is the work involved in returning the manure to the field.
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It is also often used to pay for the preliminary work involved in making applications for civil and criminal legal aid.
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She would like to know their reaction to the work involved in taking the course. 14.
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The chief drawback to small-scale silage-making is the extra physical work involved in handling the green crop with its high water content.
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The effort involved in constructing such circles was enormous.
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The work involved in writing this summation must have been back-breaking, and certainly took years of research.
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We have to do the more general piece of work involved in clearing one more bias from our morality.
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After all the effort I put in, they had better be satisfied!
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All his efforts to convince Lucy failed.
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Children are hard work, of course, but worth the effort .
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Cleaning up polluted rivers will take considerable time and effort .
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Faster and faster he pulled on the rope, gasping with the effort .
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He mounted the slope with effort , breathing hard.
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His last piece does require some effort from the listener, but it's well worth it.
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I've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far. I'm not giving up now.
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I could have told you it would be a waste of effort .
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It seemed like a lot of effort for a very small gain.
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The climb is arduous, but well worth the effort , as the views from the top are spectacular.
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The company has announced 500 job losses in an effort to cut costs.
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The former method takes a bit more effort , but the results are more reliable.
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The workers went on strike after efforts at negotiation with management broke down.
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This exercise isn't difficult - it shouldn't require much effort .
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Vicki has hardly put in any effort , yet she's expecting the same rewards as everyone else.
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But Caps suggests that if an effort is made, community institutions can still be made to work.
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But equally important to the Clinton effort was the emphasis on change.
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First it needs to boost its efforts to get wind of military-useful technology at an early stage.
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Generally, the construction industry still limits its delivery effort to an eight-hour period, Mondays to Fridays.
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Indeed this is so clear that I sometimes wonder why so much effort usually goes into attempting to prove it.
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It seems he devotes much time, much effort , to his body.
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Yet, the lynchings and the surveillance of blacks in an effort to prevent the development of rebellion continued.