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Equally worrisome, he insisted, were efforts by Iraq, Iran and North Korea to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

Local media, however, reported there were efforts by rebel club officials to make sure Friday night's Championship game against Bedford goes ahead.

Sharpton had for weeks been urging his followers to ignore reports about the discord, insisting that they were efforts by the media to stir up trouble.

The Democrats say one of their best issues in 1996 were efforts by a handful of Western Republicans to close down some national parks.

Lawyers for a group of black agents who have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Secret Service asked a federal judge today to stop what they said were efforts by the agency to intimidate their clients.

The closest parallel to the hunt for Richard were efforts by archaeologists in Winchester in 1999 to find Alfred the Great, who died in 899 and whose bones were moved at least twice, finally to Hyde Abbey in 1110.

There are efforts by governments and corporations to set up online identity systems.

As Professor Sitkoff put it, "These are efforts by people to avoid profligate, wasteful, slothful existences among the children".

In form, they are efforts by the justices to elicit information, clarifications and concessions from the lawyers.

So are efforts by government to keep diverse religious communities from insulting each other to the point of violence.

After the inception of the notion of fuzzy sets by Zadeh [5], there are efforts by many authors to apply this notion in statistics.