The enormity of the task at hand sometimes overshadows the historic backdrop of the Vienna talks: efforts to build confidence and resolve conflict have been openly supported President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei.
Maybe one shouldn't get too grand when talking about efforts during a football game to sell cars and soda.
He could have been discussing his own record while in Congress, but he was actually talking about efforts to enact new gun control measures.
"Mullah Brother can create change in the Taliban leadership, if he is used in mediation or peace-talking efforts to convince other Taliban to come over, but if he is put in jail as a prisoner, we don't think the peace process will be productive," said Hajji Baridad, a tribal elder from Kandahar.
The government had doggedly pressed on with peace talks efforts despite attacks continuing, even as government and TTP intermediaries began holding discussions earlier in the year.
"Alongside peace talks, efforts have to be made to create dialogue among health actors from both sides, not only to ensure that health and nutrition service delivery will not be interrupted, but also to build health systems that meet the needs of all communities," says Bertrand Bainvel, UNICEF Representative in Myanmar.
QUESTION FROM MARKUS : I sometimes feel that announcers and analysts dumb it all down to much, talking about effort and heart and never about the complexity of schemes.
And let's not even talk about efforts to limit excessive executive compensation.
While explaining the hospital's improvements, the director there, Dr. Jose Sanchez, talked about efforts to reduce its size.
(He is surpassed by Alito, who talked about efforts "to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy").
He said that about a month ago, Italian investigators discovered that Tokhtakhounov, on the transcripts of many phone conversations, had talked about efforts to rig the results of the competition.
