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 to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect.

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

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

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 deploy modern computers and networking equipment were generally successful, but attempts to develop new investigation software, outsourced to Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC ), were not.

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

Efforts of Belgian channel Vitaya to air the Dutch soap opera " Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden " were unsuccessful in 2010.

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

Efforts to exchange federal land from other areas for inholdings were still in the negotiation phase in 2012.

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 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 move the county seat to Hillsboro were more successful, and all county records were moved there in 1890.

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

Efforts by local advocates to implement needle exchange programs to combat the spread of infection were obstructed for several years by downstate and suburban state legislators but a program was finally approved in June 2006.

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

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 incorporate Hickory Withe led to revisions of Tennessee laws regarding incorporation and annexation.

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 to restore the marshes have led to signs of their gradual revivification as water is restored to the former desert, but the whole ecosystem may take far longer to restore than it took to destroy.

Efforts to restore the marshes have led to signs of their gradual revivification as water is restored to the former desert, but the whole ecosystem may take far longer to restore than it took to destroy.

Efforts by the Confederacy to secure control of the region led to the New Mexico Campaign.

Efforts to economize may have led to a decline in quality for many of these new homes, prompting the coinage of the disparaging term.

Efforts to account for action at a distance in the theory of electromagnetism led to the development of the concept of a field which mediated interactions between currents and charges across empty space.

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 at mutual understanding of the range of beliefs led in 1980s to consultations on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry ( BEM ) through the World Council of Churches, consultations that included the Roman Catholic Church.

Efforts to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War, i. e., the area's strategic geopolitical position, led the Government of Canada to forcibly relocate Inuit from northern Quebec to Resolute ( and to Grise Fiord ).

Efforts by many, especially multiple actions by students from Howard University, led to the integration of the area.

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

Efforts to continue professional hockey in Macon led to the formation of the Macon Trax, also now defunct.

Efforts by the Canadian government to develop western Canada led to increases in Strathmore's population and its importance as a rail supply stop.

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 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 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 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.

* 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.