The committee concluded that China was chiefly motivated by its desire to match the sophisticated efforts of Taiwan and other major nations.

The score is generally considered to be one of Sondheim's most ambitious and sophisticated efforts.

Asian-American candidacies have been bolstered by increasingly sophisticated efforts at political organizing.

It was quite a sophisticated effort, very carefully planned.

"This was the most sophisticated and extensive get-out-the-vote effort that this state has ever seen."

The most sophisticated efforts to tease out cause and effect in education and earnings point in one direction.

There is a very sophisticated legal effort under way by the religious right to find loopholes in the law governing church-state relations.

We need a sophisticated effort to integrate the region's economies, to promote investment, and to assist in economic modernization.

It also explains why Congress has been happy to finance a technically sophisticated $700 million effort to seal the United States's borders.

Even the more sophisticated efforts to shape an image often seem crude.