"firm efforts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an action or effort that is sustained and strong. Example: The company made firm efforts to reduce their carbon footprint.
Union and company negotiators held marathon bargaining meetings on concessions sought persistently by G.M., particularly in health care benefits, and the union's equally firm effort to limit any harm to the benefits.
The £28m striker, who had an early firm effort well held by Allan McGregor, had a shot blocked by Dawson as Everton pushed for a late winner.
Antonio forced a great save from Silvestri, who also kept out Robert Tesche's firm effort and the dangerous Fryatt once again had an effort from eight yards ruled out for offside.
Ramos and Pepe never looked comfortable in dealing with Gomez and the Bayern striker had a firm effort pushed away by Casillas just before the interval following an incisive break from the hosts.
They also argue that the crisis will undermine building firms' efforts to emerge from recession.
Regulators will hamper firms' efforts to keep up with the digital revolution.
So far, the firms' efforts have run the gamut from simple conversations with summer associates to videos promoting the firm's expertise or its diversity.
Mandom, an 87-year-old Japanese firm, found itself a giant of the Indonesian male-cosmetics market.Other firms' efforts to peacock their emerging-market credentials look, with hindsight, like indicators of excess.
The Access to Medicine Foundation, a non-profit group, tracks drug firms' efforts to serve patients in developing countries; and in its ranking of the 20 biggest ones, Japanese firms occupy four of the bottom six rungs.That may change.
No doubt, bank executives will say that the way to prevent the similar debacles is to improve "risk management," the industry term used for firms' efforts to assess how much they could lose under different situations.
