But efforts to promote the project have run into stiff resistance.

From the start, the effort to correct the problem has run into problems.

His first effort, The Citizen, ran to only nine issues in 1716.

But their efforts are running into opposition on many fronts.

This year, the fund-raising effort is running slightly behind last year's.

Current efforts to protect the world's biodiversity run the risk of doing more harm than good.

He remembers how similar efforts in the past ran aground.

Fox's efforts to create a 24-hour cable news service have also run into opposition.

But it is not surprising that his efforts have already run into resistance.

But that effort ran out of steam after about two years.