For its part, the EU termed Russia's stance "unacceptable".Russia is making increasing efforts to deter the biggest country in its former empire from looking west and to prod it into joining the rival, Kremlin-led Eurasian Customs Union instead.
Huawei's apparent business strategy is for Honor to branch out and be an independent brand, and to that end, Honor is making increasing efforts to distance itself from Huawei (though Huawei still includes Honor phone sales in its annual sales reports).
She noted that UNICEF was making increasing efforts to leverage its reach with multilateral partners with the aim of mobilizing support for child rights, achieving greater coherence in policy and exchanging information and technical expertise.
Sharon Fawcett, the assistant archivist for presidential libraries, said that other presidential libraries were making increased efforts to deal with difficult chapters of a presidency: Iran-contra is reflected in the Ronald Reagan library, and the library for Franklin D. Roosevelt notes his failure to respond to the Holocaust.
He's right Chinese schools have been making increased efforts to educate children about environmental issues, and President Xi Jinping has made repeated awareness-raising declarations about the importance of being green.
Led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born veteran militant who took over after the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, the group has made increasing efforts in recent years to mobilise the nearly half a billion Muslims who live in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
"On the downside, the energy green paper notes the transformation under way in global energy markets as countries make increasing efforts to reduce their emissions, but steps back from positioning Australia to deal with international shifts to clean energy and carbon constraints," said Erwin Jackson, deputy chief executive of the Climate Institute.
As Islamic State, a rival to al-Qaida within the broad movement of Sunni Muslim extremism, continues to build its influence and recognition in the south Asian region, experts say it is likely that al-Qaida will make increasing efforts to prove its contemporary credentials through spectacular attacks.
That's why it is more important than ever for managers to make increased efforts to stay relevant and protect against skill obsolescence.
In the aftermath of the unrest, black and Jewish groups in the city, and particularly in Crown Heights, a mostly black and Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in central Brooklyn, made increased efforts to heal tensions.
For instance, states should make increased efforts to ensure that polling places are disability accessible, which is (unsurprisingly) proven to increase turnout among people with disabilities.
