Efforts are underway to revitalize the downtown with new residential and retail properties.

Efforts are being made to revitalize the downtown and to adjust to the phenomenal growth of the area.

Efforts by groups like these, along with a recent recognition that massive, 1960s-style social welfare projects often had negative consequences, have helped to revitalize the neighborhood.

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 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 on the part of Alamo Square and North Panhandle residents and merchants have led to restrictions on chain stores on the corridor.

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.

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 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 to improve the city include the " 21st Century Waterfront Plan " – a $ 120 million redevelopment of the Chattanooga waterfront and downtown area, which was completed in 2005.

Efforts by the remainder of Novi Township to incorporate as a village prompted the newly established village of Wixom to incorporate as a city.

Efforts were again put forth for their conversion ; and for the converts the new city of Alexiopolis was built, opposite Philippopolis.

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.

Efforts are being made to sell it, as it only brings a loss to the city which owns it.

Efforts to control flooding led to most of the lake being drained, leaving a much smaller Lake Texcoco west of the city, surrounded by salt marsh.

Efforts to establish Eno River State Park started in 1965 when the city of Durham proposed building a reservoir in the river valley.

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 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 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.