They predict that the effort will stall for lack of support.

"We are continuing to talk to both parties but our efforts have stalled and we're not getting anywhere."

Subsequently, the city's effort to push poor people into managed care stalled for months.

The world market for tourism is now so competitive that we cannot afford to let our efforts stall.

But for a laundry list of reasons, that effort has stalled, and no one at the insurance department appears to be standing in Progressive's way.

Efforts at campaign finance reform in Congress have stalled in recent days.

Meanwhile, efforts to build a national network of regional trauma centers have stalled.

Debate over whether the program would be compulsory proved so intense that the entire effort stalled.

"An effort to stall the inevitable at best," she deduced, her eyes closing for a moment.

That program expired last year, and an effort to extend it has stalled during the debate over financing the Iraq war.