Efforts such as the Community Development Program in the Philippines have demonstrated that transitional societies can work toward balanced national development.

Efforts to privatize other publicly held enterprises have stalled.

Efforts to exploit tourism potential, encourage offshore banking, and expand the mining and fishing industries have been partially successful in stimulating investment and growth.

Efforts have been made to create internationalized domain names that further extend the English alphabet ( e. g., " pokémon. com ").

Efforts to trace it from Estonia back to Denmark have, however, been in vain.

Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty.

Efforts to find such evidence have been made since 1960, and several are ongoing.

Efforts to revitalize this important part of the city have been undertaken by the municipal government and have been very successful thus far.

Efforts to alter or abolish the confessional system of allocating power have been at the centre of Lebanese politics for decades.

Efforts to eradicate opium cultivation have pushed many ethnic rebel groups, including the United Wa State Army and the Kokang to diversify into methamphetamine production.

Efforts to have pankration as a demonstration sport in the 2004 Olympics in Athens were unsuccessful.

* Efforts to protect the Earth from asteroid impact have been neglected.

Efforts to strengthen the law have met with failure in recent years, but minor reforms seem likely.

Efforts have been made by Chinese entrepreneurs to satisfy increasing demand for turtle meat as gourmet food and traditional medicine with farmed turtles, instead of wild-caught ones ; according to a study published in 2007, over a thousand turtle farms operated in China.

Efforts to psychometrically distinguish between normal and pathological dissociation have been made, but they have not been universally accepted.

Efforts at language revival continue to be undertaken, both inside and outside the Church, and have attracted the interest of both Copts and Muslims in Egypt.

Efforts have been made by the government in recent years to expand food production, and several projects have been undertaken, largely financed by foreign donors.

Efforts to eradicate a small colony from Tasmania's Lake Crescent without using chemicals have been successful, but the long-term, expensive and intensive undertaking is an example of both the possibility and difficulty of safely removing the species once it is established.

Efforts to develop a safe and effective syphilis vaccine have been hindered by uncertainty about the relative importance of humoral and cellular mechanisms to protective immunity and the fact that T. pallidum outer membrane proteins have not been unambiguously identified.

Efforts to establish the play's date of composition and genesis have been complicated by its uncertain relationship with another Elizabethan play with an almost identical plot but different wording and character names, A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called the taming of a Shrew, which is often theorised to be a reported text of a performance of The Shrew, a source for The Shrew, or an early draft ( possibly reported ) of The Shrew.

Efforts have been initiated to protect the property from logging and development.

Efforts have been made to create a unified body of commercial law in the United States ; the most successful of these attempts has resulted in the general adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code, which has been adopted in all 50 states ( with some modification by state legislatures ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. territories.

Efforts have been made to port Coda onto Microsoft Windows platforms, from the Windows 95 / Windows 98 era, Windows NT to Windows XP, by means of open source projects like the DJGCC DOS C Compiler and Cygwin.

Efforts are made to protect both species of sea turtles since nests have been declining in recent years due to the severe erosion of the beach.

Efforts to reinstitute commuter trains, such as the Schuylkill Valley Metro, have been unsuccessful.

Efforts to make the Trinity navigable for steamers continued from 1852 to 1940, when 236 miles of waterway had been completed and Liberty served as an inland port with barge connections to the Houston Ship Channel.

Efforts were made to take the grab samples at random periods so that the mass of data could be treated as a 6-hr. composite sample.

Efforts were made towards improving education standards ; and, in an effort to unify Chinese society, the New Life Movement was launched to encourage Confucian moral values and personal discipline.

Efforts are further being made to improve the business and investment environment.

Efforts are made to transport raw materials from the rest of the world and from the mineral-rich west to the Chinese plain.

Efforts are being made to more fully develop quantum cryptography, which will theoretically allow guaranteed secure transmission of information.

Efforts were also made in 1991 to include Bosnia and Herzegovina within the federation, with negotiations between Milosevic, Bosnia's Serbian Democratic Party, and the Bosniak proponent of union-Bosnia's Vice-President Adil Zulfikarpašić taking place on this matter.

Efforts were also made to decentralize planning and improve the managerial skills of government officials.

Efforts were made during Nasser's time in office to realise the social goals of the National Charter.

Efforts were made starting in the 1830s and continuing through the 19th century to detect infrared radiation from other astronomical sources.

Efforts are being made to diversify the range of local crops with Floriculture and Sericulture being introduced in the local area, as well as the cultivation of mushrooms.

Efforts are being made to select breeds which are tolerant or resistant to various pathogens.

Efforts were made by the DMP to stop the march and break it up at Terenure and Rathmines DMP stations, but the paraders broke through the cordons at both points.

Efforts are being made to preserve green space wherever possible, which includes retaining the green belt fronting 24 Avenue N. W.

Efforts were made to solve the social problems that had already started to affect earlier estates.

Efforts were made to set up trading posts on the Leaf Lakes and Otter Tail Lake.

Efforts have been made and are ongoing to secure compensation for the illness or death of family members exposed to the mill tailings.