Mumble something about recycling but decide it's not worth the effort to say anything.

"You might by an effort of imagination say that you rather liked me."

Any action would not be part of the war on terrorism, but an effort to stabilize a democratic government, the official said.

Some families with otherwise complex patterns of activity make an effort that everybody should be present to gather at breakfast time, say.

That effort says it has signed up almost 1.4 million voters.

But for all their efforts, both residents and the police say, nothing much has changed.

I thought the boy's efforts said a lot about his character, too.

The people on my street turn to violence-to crisis-in an effort to say to the world, 'Look at me.

Today, he acknowledged that the effort appeared to have failed, but said it was not surprising.

The movement's effort "to get the Supreme Court out of the way" is only a first step, he said.