It is a quiet effort, but more significant than those of most of the nations explicitly backing the war.

There are a few quiet efforts at bipartisan talks.

They point to quiet but promising efforts made by the administration to broker a peace deal in Sudan.

In the interview after his release last week, he called the siege a tragedy that scuttled quiet efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.

Gaza residents attributed recent quiet to army efforts to avoid confrontations with Arabs.

But this is not,' she added, with the quiet effort again, 'what I have come to trouble you with, sir.

Amos would be pleased when he learned of this quiet effort, later.

But others have been involved in a quiet effort to fashion a compromise.

Some Palestinian experts said it appeared that senior officials had made a quiet effort to calm the streets.

The pledge was part of the Governor's quiet behind-the-scenes effort to coordinate a cooperative approach to the city's problems.