Agents went to considerable effort to devise itineraries.
Some experts have raised the idea of a collaborative international effort to devise guidelines.
After the 2010 Hameen fire, Gap spent about two years talking with international NGOs and trade unions in an effort to devise a cooperative approach to worker safety.
The Duke University experiment is a significant advance in the effort to devise thought-controlled machines that could benefit people who are paralyzed.
And the troubled effort to devise them has raised broader questions about what kind of evidence should be used to direct medical practice, how changes should be introduced and even which guidelines to believe.
"The initiatives we approved are the product of a significant effort to devise a sophisticated, yet workable and effective way to protect our markets from excessive volatility," Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the S.E.C, said in a statement.
About a dozen key bishops (at one time including both Bob Duncan and Gene Robinson) have conferred privately over the past year, partly in an effort to devise an alternative system of episcopal oversight for parishes that are irreconcilably at odds with their local bishop.
Back in the 1980s, after all, health experts at Heritage made a good-faith effort to devise a plan for universal health coverage — and what they came up with was the system now known as Obamacare.
A similar effort to devise a "continental narrative" integrating the histories of the three Nafta partners, Canada, Mexico and the United States, has been stalled for more than a decade, and looks most likely never to come to pass.
And he said there was still no significant effort to devise an international agreement, let alone a deflection technique, for dealing with the inevitable earthbound asteroid or comet, large or small, when it is identified.
