NCWM found its beginnings in 1905 in an effort to bring stakeholders together to set national standards for voluntary adoption and implementation by the states.

He has proposed intensified efforts to find and use new sources of energy in an effort to decrease reliance on foreign oil.

The police, they believe, were extrapolating from what little they could find in an effort to make up for their early inattention to the case.

Then a nightclub owner is murdered, and Sam moves fast to find the killer in an effort to prevent the gang war from escalating.

We'd laid her in the brightest spot we could find in an effort to keep her warm.

The person who does not trust himself will try to find external things in an effort to learn what is good and what is bad.

Markov is frantically trying to find the key to human transformation in an effort to regain his form.

No matter the circumstances, somehow children always found a way to play, if only in an effort to remove themselves mentally from the torture of their lives.

Wesley finds her contract with the law firm and burns it in an effort to free her, but the contract just reappears in the drawer.