There have been essentially no efforts to recruit more students into the mathematical biology major.
Google's promotion of Android is, essentially, an effort to control its destiny in the mobile world.
The Republicans will also offer a motion to "recommit" the Democrats' bill for changes -- essentially an effort to block a vote on the bill.
An estimated 1,400 home care agencies and 120,000 paid caregivers would be affected by the proposed legislation, which is essentially an effort to bring consumer protections to an industry that has been likened to the Wild West.
Last October, Samuel Palmisano, now the firm's chief executive, announced that IBM was making a $10-billion 10-billiont he called "on-demand computing"—essentially an effort to turn IT from a fixed into a variabet cont.
Still, Arizona — whose tough law granting the police the power to detain illegal immigrants is tied up in the courts — may again take the lead in what is essentially an effort to redefine what it means to be an American.
Ultrabooks are essentially an effort to bring to notebooks based on Microsoft's Windows operating system the lightweight, thin design of Apple's MacBook Air, a machine with the thickness of a short stack of papers.
It is not surprising that all the detailed and precise western knowledge about the East - the travel books, missionary accounts, administrators' gazettes - did not much help Lawrence in what was, essentially, an effort at empathy.
So in March, the F.D.I.C. held a series of "securitization round tables," essentially an effort to jawbone debtholders into agreeing to freeze the starter interest rate, instead of allowing the reset rate to go into effect.
The case is essentially an effort to expand the notion of religious "burden" as declared in the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
