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 increase GDP include the promotion of tourism and a financial services industry.

Efforts to increase ecotourism include an Americorps VISTA project to create a trail network for hikers and campers in the surrounding badlands.

Efforts are underway to increase the amount of heathland on the chase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have crowded out most other plants.

Efforts were also undertaken to increase the representation of Burmese in the civil service.

Efforts were made to shift the burden of direct taxes away from lower-income groups, while increases in the minimum wage gave the low paid a real increase in their living standards of about 15 % in 1981 – 82.

Efforts to rebuild the company paid off and in 2006, 48 percent of the Putnam's mutual funds scored in the top 50 percent when compared with funds in their peer group, an increase of 8 percent from two years prior.

Efforts then increase to better market the organization, increase membership, expand the fund raising efforts and prepare for the 50th anniversary.

Efforts to help increase populations may help survival.

* " Efforts increase to enfranchise U. S. citizens abroad.

Efforts to increase the number of bilingual Oneida speakers, however, have been extensive.

Efforts are being made by the Zambian government, along with a number of non-governmental organizations, to increase the visibility of the many natural and historical treasures in the Northern Province.

Efforts to control the increase in the tax burden have been made by the states of the OECD: the tax rate decelerated during the 90s and has decreased slightly since 2000.

Efforts from firefighters saved the station and a train which had terminated there.

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

Efforts to test and deploy Gee became a high priority, and the Chain Executive Committee was set up under the chairmanship of Robert Renwick in October 1941 to site a series of Gee stations.

Efforts at reconstruction were set back through a fire in 1691.

Efforts by the Paris Club ( an organisation set up by the world's industrialised nations during the 1950s to restruture debt from severely indebted nations ) to seek debt forgiveness in order to allow Iraq to use its oil revenues to reconstruct met with some success among wealthy nations with the very notable exceptions of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

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 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 are being put in place to limit the petty crimes ( especially car / house burglaries ).

Efforts to solve traffic problems have been made but most of the city streets and bridges are now crowded and insufficient to handle regular and rush hours traffic ; a forty km / h speed limit in most parts of the city worsens the situation.

* The Next Ten Years of Post-9 / 11 Security Efforts, Q & A with 9 / 11 Commissioner Slade Gorton ( July 2011 )

Efforts such as the Silbervogel and X-30 / X-33 have all failed to materialize into a vehicle capable of successfully reaching space.

Efforts to resurrect the Reno Renegades / Rage organization as an ECHL team have been repeatedly delayed by problems in finding a suitable home arena in the Reno area.

Efforts by the U. S. through the International Court of Justice were made to settle the dispute, but a 50 / 50 profit-sharing arrangement, with recognition of nationalization, was rejected by both the British government and Prime Minister Mossadegh.

* Efforts are under way for a U. S ./ Mexico international park with a similar purpose, joining the Big Bend National Park in the United States with the Maderas del Carmen and Cañon de Santa Elena protected areas in Mexico, as well as a USA / Russia international park in the Bering Strait, highlighting the shared heritage of Russians and Americans of the area.

In 1997, the Euchees United Cultural Historical Educational Efforts ( EUCHEE ) claimed that there were currently two spoken dialects: the Duck Creek / Polecat and the Bigpond variations.

Efforts to cope with labels, such as not telling anyone, educating people about mental distress / disorder, withdrawing from stigmatizing situations, could result in further social isolation and reinforce negative self-concepts.

Efforts made by the monks of Minster-in-Thanet to manage the Wantsum in the Middle Ages are reflected in two names for parts of the Channel / Stour, Abbot's Wall, and Monk's Wall.

Efforts of the band to tour and promote the album did little to boost sales, and the band eventually split in 1992 after a period of downtime.

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 in 1867 to begin production by the Trinidad and Tobago Petroleum Company at La Brea and the Pariah Petroleum Company at Aripero were poorly financed and abandoned after Walter Darwent died of yellow fever.

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 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 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.