These are the people who could help make-or-break efforts to implement new gun legislation.
Successful communication, or the lack thereof, will make or break efforts to introduce your innovation to market.
But the existence of the British code-breaking effort remained closely guarded even after the end of the war; the relevant documents weren't declassified until the nineteen-seventies.
I can specify how long I want the key to exist, and after the key is destroyed, the message can't be read without a herculean code-breaking effort.
Bannister took five days rest – with no running – before the race itself and was schoolboy-fresh for his barrier-breaking effort.
Now that the United States was ready to throw its vast resources into the code-breaking effort, he was dispatched as a liaison to Washington, where he helped the Americans get their own Bombe-making and Enigma-monitoring under way.
In so doing, Deep Blue satisfied at least one of the criteria for artificial intelligence set in the 1950s by Alan Turing, the mathematical genius behind the Enigma code-breaking effort in wartime Britain.Yet Deep Blue's victory left the world's artificial-intelligence community unimpressed.
For G.M., the ATS is a make-or-break effort to establish Cadillac as a legitimate contender in the global luxury car market.
Such disagreements and the politics surrounding the conference, many participants in the negotiations say, are helping to make the forthcoming sessions in The Hague a make-or-break effort.
Infinity, which cost Disney over $100 million to develop, according to analysts, is viewed as a make-or-break effort to turn around the company's money-losing gaming and Web division after years (and years) of trying.
But he decided to undertake a make-or-break effort with a varied program -- Beethoven, Handel, Stravinsky, Saint-Saëns and Mr. Nygaard's own orchestration of a Spanish Renaissance motet -- with the Westchester Chamber Symphony.
