Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest city, has been without an N.F.L. franchise for a decade and a half, and repeated efforts to place another team there have failed.
Myanmar has been largely closed to foreign journalists for nearly a year and repeated efforts to secure visas have been unsuccessful.
As a result, despite repeated efforts to negotiate among themselves more attractive alternatives to the June accord, the companies could not reach a consensus.
Senator Romer need look no further than the experience of the State Health Board, a body that has seen its repeated efforts to impose a similar limit on caregivers struck down over administrative violations.
He may have also inadvertently pointed to a motive for his repeated efforts to obstruct the Russia investigation — possibly strengthening the case that he obstructed justice.
Those who remember him from his days as solicitor general in the Reagan administration, where his tag-team partner was Attorney General Edwin Meese, may mistake him for a social conservative, an impression left by his repeated efforts to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Repeated efforts to reach A-Rod through three layers of publicists — think booby traps around a precious stone — were unsuccessful.
The house swarmed with industry, as workmen in hard hats, decorators and their subalterns moved back and forth over thresholds, squinting their eyes in repeated efforts to get a fresh look at a room.
Above all, aides and supporters point to his repeated efforts to develop a consensus on controversial issues as a key to his management style, an attribute that will almost certainly be a necessity as the Bush administration seeks to increase defense spending and win Congressional approval for a national missile defense program.
League executives, frustrated by what they feel are Kessler's repeated efforts to stall an agreement, called the standoff a game of "high-stakes chicken".
But there is natural frustration with the Jets' repeated efforts to add a challenger.
