Efforts are underway in the early 21st Century to again begin major mining activities in the region.

Efforts to curtail the line-crossing ceremony did not begin until the 1980s, when several reports of blatant hazing began to circulate regarding the line-crossing ceremony, and at least one death was attributed to abuse while crossing the line.

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 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 redistribute plantation land resulted in decreased cocoa production.

Efforts to settle the lend-lease debts caused nearly 70 % of Triumph's post war production to be shipped to the United States.

* Efforts to obtain control of Nigerian oil production in 1968 in association with Biafran separatists.

Efforts to transfer production to ECW in Lowestoft failed, again due to industrial relations problems, so it was finally decided that production would recommence at an expanded facility in Workington, which also built the Leyland National.

Efforts to re-start production at Tarakan's oilfields were delayed by serious damage to the facilities and Japanese holdouts, and they did not become operational until after the war.

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 demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan were delayed by the Second Sudanese Civil War.

Efforts were undertaken not only to place women in occupations dominated by males, but also to bring males into fields traditionally believed to belong to the women's sphere, such as child care and elementary school teaching.

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 improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

Efforts by the Indian Government to make Hindi the sole official language after 1965 were not acceptable to many non-Hindi Indian states, who wanted the continued use of English.

Efforts to include the whole of Bosnia within a new Yugoslavia effectively terminated by late 1991 as Izetbegovic planned to hold a referendum on independence while the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats formed autonomous territories.

Efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan were delayed by the Second Sudanese Civil War.

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 purchase or trade these inholdings for other federal lands are ongoing and through partnerships with other entities, 10 million dollars is hoped to be raised to acquire private inholdings by 2016.

Efforts to bolster economic activity are evidenced by the city enacting policies to benefit small businesses, and even going so far as to paint a mural on the facade of a large water treatment building facing the freeway that depicts two shopping bags headlined by the words, " Shop in Fountain Valley.

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 to develop resistant cultivars began in the Netherlands in 1928 and continued, uninterrupted by World War II, until 1992.

Efforts have been made to revive them, such as the takeover of the Krishnarajendra Mills by the Atlantic Spinning and Weaving Mills, but they have run into other problems.

Efforts by Jewish Christians to proselytize Jews go back to the first Century when Paul preached first at the synagogues in each city he visited.

Efforts by the Beiyang government to end the protests by sealing off the Peking University campus led to Cai's resignation.

* Electronic Newsletter of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cambridge, MA-scroll down to Current Legislative and Policy Efforts by Mitchell Kapor.

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 to encourage the American Emigrant Company to provide funds of $ 2, 000 to start a school lost out to a rival project in Belvidere.

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.

See the sections on " John James ", " Efforts at Conformity " and " Fifth Monarchy Views ".

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

Efforts to deal with both the Parthians and the Jews as well as retain control of the provinces at the same time proved beyond the weakened empire's power.

Efforts to restore this species to the wild began in 1929, with the establishment of the Bison Restitution Centre at Białowieża, Poland.

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 at rebuilding the small town ceased when a flood came later that year and wiped out the rest of the buildings.

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 to develop Pink started around 1989, although at the time the effort was primarily a research effort.

Efforts at compromise, including the " Corwin Amendment " and the " Crittenden Compromise ", failed.

Efforts by Frank Miller, then owner of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, Hiram Johnson and others, succeeded in gaining War Department approval to construct an airfield at Alessandro Field located near Riverside, an airstrip used by aviators from Rockwell Field on cross-country flights from San Diego.

Efforts have gone towards attempting to build a skate park in Aptos, however it appears unlikely at this point.

* William Edgar Grumman, The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Connecticut, and the Record of their Services: With Mention of Others Who Rendered Service or Suffered Loss at the Hands of the Enemy During the Struggle for Independence, 1775-1783: Together with Some Account of the Loyalists of the Town and Vicinity, Their Organization, Their Efforts, and Sacrifices in Behalf of the Cause of Their King, and their Ultimate Fate.

Efforts by the southern communities from the late 18th century to build a number of relatively expensive construction projects along the coastline, such as a new road from Stonington Borough to Mystic and a bridge over Lambert ’ s Cove, at first led residents of the northern end of the town to oppose budgeting monies for these projects, and eventually caused the northerners to secede and form their own town.

Efforts to break the strike resulted in the deaths of at least 35, and perhaps hundreds, of African American workers at the hands of white paramilitary members.

Efforts are ongoing to remediate environmental conditions at the site and repair or demolish the dam and restore the lake.

Efforts were made to regularise conditions in local prisons but without much success, and these failures led to prison reform in 1877 which nationalised British prisons, including prisons at castles like York.

Efforts have been made at the University of California, Irvine to produce dynamic executable code using a combination of hot spot analysis and run-time program trace tree.

* Zimbabwe: Efforts at land reform in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe moved, after 15 years, in the 1990s, from a " willing seller, willing buyer " approach to the " fast track " land reform program.