Eventually, however, one got used to not having to make an effort to understand what was going on.

In our effort to understand corporate life, what is it we should learn from the story?

I listened for a while, making an effort to understand.

She involves teacher education students in the effort to understand somebody else's understanding.

But there is a growing effort to understand the disease.

"Until every single person makes an effort to understand each other, things are going to stay the same."

So we make a little effort to understand their language.

Court officials made no effort to understand what could possibly have brought a child that age to such a point.

I think that we have made an effort to understand all parties.

Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them.