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 were limited because there was little consensus on the goals of educational reforms, and therefore on how to fix the problems.

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

* 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 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 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.

The " Resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts " also advises that parents, guardians, young people and their families avoid sexual orientation treatments that portray homosexuality as a mental illness or developmental disorder and instead seek psychotherapy, social support and educational services " that provide accurate information on sexual orientation and sexuality, increase family and school support and reduce rejection of sexual minority youth.

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 make a wider peace continued, but in the spring of 1864, John Evans, governor of Colorado Territory, and John Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, a citizens militia, began a series of attacks on Indians camping or hunting on the plains.

Efforts between NERC and the Canadian and Mexican governments are underway to obtain comparable authority for NERC to enforce its standards on the NERC member systems residing outside of the United States.

Efforts to fund extraordinary expenditure on the conflict between Buenos Aires and the other provinces of the Confederation caused the fiscal deficit to skyrocket.

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

Efforts on the part of Motorola and IBM to popularize PReP / CHRP failed when Apple, IBM, and Taligent all failed to provide an operating system that could run on it and when Apple and IBM couldn't reach agreement on whether the reference design must or must not have a parallel port.

Efforts to develop Space Based Interceptors were considered in support of theater missile defense on the Theater High Altitude Air Defense ( THAAD ) program.

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 to incorporate Pflugerville culminated in the holding of an election on July 24, 1965.

Efforts to control deforestation must be taken on a global scale.

Efforts by Dixiecrats to paint other Truman loyalists as turncoats generally failed, although the seeds of discontent were planted which in years to come took their toll on Southern moderates.

Efforts in 1883 to construct a temple on this chabootra were halted by the Deputy Commissioner who prohibited it on January 19, 1885.

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

Efforts which concentrate on discovering NEOs are considered part of the " Spaceguard Survey ," regardless of which organization they are affiliated with.

Efforts by the UN, prominent Afghans living outside the country, and other interested countries to bring about a peaceful solution to the continuing conflict came to nothing, largely because of intransigence on the part of the Taliban.

Efforts on the part of both Kirkland and Hamilton alumni to acknowledge common interests have begun to mend these breaches by responding to the curiosity and interests of current Hamilton students regarding Kirkland and its influence on their college.

Efforts to repeal it started in 1810, with comments by William Grant as part of a wider debate on penal reform ; a formal recommendation for its repeal took almost a decade, with the publication of the Report on Criminal Laws in 1819 marking the first " official " suggestion that the law be removed from the statute books.

Efforts to occupy the territory of modern Sichuan failed, but Chouchi controlled a great part of the modern provinces Gansu ( east ) and Shaanxi ( south ).

Efforts to use apes to discover which part of the files has this effect fail: so the effect is limited to humans.

Efforts to improve aid effectiveness have gained significant momentum in the health sector, due in large part to the work of the International Health Partnership ( IHP +).

Efforts are also being made to give exposure to students of technical and engineering colleges to encourage them to be part of the country's aim of becoming a design hub in aerospace technologies in the foreseeable future ," the official added.

Efforts are being made to re-introduce it to newly suitable habitat in The Fens as part of the Great Fen Project.

For Their Efforts, Fundraisers Also Gain, Washington Post, October 15, 2003: " The record receipts -- more than triple the top Democrat's fundraising for the quarter -- were driven in large part by just 285 men and women, who collected $ 38. 5 million or more, which was at least 45 percent of Bush's total take.

Efforts were made to establish a residential district at " Riversdale Estate ", but the use of Burswood Island as part of a sewerage filtration system ( 1906-1934 ) and the existence of various light industries from the 1910s onward worked against development.

* North Korea Says It Will Abandon Nuclear Efforts, New York Times, September 19, 2005

Efforts by community and political leaders to bring a state university to North County date back to the 1960s.

Efforts to further protect the lower valley forests of Alpine Lakes began in the 1950s by the North Cascades Conservation Council formed in 1957 and in October 1968 the Alpine Lakes Protection Society was formed.

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 by the Tidy Towns committee and residents ' associations to improve the appearance and quality of the local environment are ongoing.

Efforts to make Devens the state's 352nd town failed on the local level in 2006, and these residents say a legislative solution could be their final option.

Efforts by local residents and civic officials to see the farm reopen are currently under way.

Efforts are made to preserve traditional customs, including traditional languages, but some English is spoken by most residents.

Efforts to merge these towns with the neighboring city of Nagoya began in 1953 and 1955, but were virulently opposed by the local residents, resulting recall motions for town mayors, and eventually violent riots.

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

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.