After the first report, health officials and hospital groups pledged reforms, but many of the most important efforts have been slow to take hold.

Although the trade proved to be an important effort in the team, they still couldn't make the playoffs.

He initiated important efforts that touched the lives of people around the world.

Of course he supports the great and important effort we are making.

One of the most important efforts at the bank has been to clarify responsibility for individual countries.

Amid this push, the agency's most important efforts have suddenly been put on hold.

It was an important initial effort toward creating the commercial Internet that we know today.

I personally regard that as a very important effort over the 10 years.

Yet the book is an important first effort to establish the facts.

Now they are hard at work, and their most important efforts may be beginning in the Appropriations committees.