Recent efforts to overturn the laws restricting automobile dealerships from opening on Sunday have died in committee in the Maine legislature.

Recent historic ecumenical efforts on the part of the Catholic Church have focused on healing the rupture between the Western (" Catholic ") and the Eastern (" Orthodox ") churches.

Recent. NET development efforts at ETHZ have been focused on a new language called Zonnon.

Recent efforts to break with traditional structure and characterization have met with a measure of success as contemporary playwrights seek new forms and modes of expression.

Recent examinations of primary documents have determined that the citizen diplomacy at work in the Portsmouth peace process — as the people of Portsmouth encouraged the delegates ' efforts for peace at numerous social events, especially during the times when formal negotiations were breaking down — provides an important example for diplomacy today.

Recent efforts have focused on the direct seeding method where seed of native species is ploughed into a scraped trench.

Recent efforts have been made by the 25045-A New Clendenin group ( a non-profit corporation based in Clendenin ) and the Business and Industrial Development Corporation ( headquartered in Charleston ) to enhance economic and cultural development in the town.

Recent efforts to reduce broad spectrum toxins added to the environment have brought biological insecticides back into vogue.

Recent arrivals in the pageant include China ( 2002 ), Albania ( 2002 ), Vietnam ( 2004 ), Georgia ( 2004 ), Ethiopia ( 2004 ), Latvia ( 2005 ), Kazakhstan ( 2006 ), Tanzania ( 2007 ), and Kosovo ( 2008 ); there have also been efforts to revive strong national pageants in South Africa, Canada, Spain, Japan ; Latin America ( especially Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil ) among other regions.

Recent efforts to devise more generic definitions of infrastructure have typically referred to the network aspects of most of the structures, and to the accumulated value of investments in the networks as assets.

Recent efforts at publicity include the world's largest food and wine fair, the Salone del Gusto in Turin, a biennial cheese fair in Bra called Cheese, the Genoan fish festival called SlowFish, and Turin's Terra Madre (" Mother Earth ") world meeting of food communities.

Recent efforts include aid to farmers.

Recent robust decision efforts have formally integrated uncertainty into the decision making process.

Recent efforts have included those that have met with controversy, including an effort in East Africa aimed at spreading human rights awareness among prostitutes in Uganda and other East African nations, which was not received well by the Ugandan authorities, who considered it an effort to legalize and legitimize prostitution.

Recent Archeological efforts have unearthed the foundations of several buildings at ' The Oaks ' plantation.

Recent efforts to republish his most significant works with Germany ’ s leading publisher of Judaica, Mohr Siebeck in Tübingen, failed in 2005, after agreement with the press had already been reached, due to unknown reasons on the publishers ' side.

Recent efforts have restored its light tower to operational status for the summer months.

Recent consulting efforts have included general manager evaluation assistance, business plan development, and expansion assistance.

Recent efforts to utilize NMR for metabolomics have been largely driven by the laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Nicholson at Birkbeck College, University of London and later at Imperial College London.

* ( 2003 ): Recent conservation efforts and current status of the flora of Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico.

Recent efforts that have received such recognition include a series of stories that resulted in the resignation and criminal conviction of the state House of Delegates education chairman, a series on the environmental effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, a series on the state's " failed " attempts to deal with its residents suffering from mental illness, and a series on the deaths nationwide from the widespread use of methadone.

Recent successful expansion efforts include the University of Wisconsin ( 2011 ), Georgia College & State University ( 2011 ), the University of Rhode Island ( 2011 ), the University of Arizona ( 2011 ), the University of Kentucky ( 2011 ), the University of Nebraska ( 2012 ), Florida International University ( 2012 ), Louisiana State University ( 2012 ), and Oklahoma State University ( 2012 ).

Recent efforts to increase habitat protection met with strong official opposition, and violence against the proponents.

Recent research efforts have focused on how the built environment and socio-economic status affect health.

Recent efforts to bring business media to these countries have proven to be worthwhile.

Recent observations from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) using sound waves traveling below the Sun's photosphere ( local helioseismology ) have been used to develop a three-dimensional image of the internal structure below sunspots ; these observations show that there is a powerful downdraft underneath each sunspot, forming a rotating vortex that concentrates the magnetic field.

Recent genetic testing has revealed the presence of unique genetic markers, indicating that it may develop into a separate species,

Recent studies have shown that those subjects who have an extremely high occurrence of PVCs ( several thousand a day ) can develop dilated cardiomyopathy.

Recent master jabbers include Lennox Lewis, and currently the No. 1 heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko, both coached by the same trainer and able to develop significant power into their jabs.

Recent studies have shown that those subjects who have an extremely high occurrence ( several thousands a day ) of premature ventricular contractions ( extrasystole ) can develop dilated cardiomyopathy.

Recent attempts to develop an integrated model of moral motivation have identified at least six different levels of moral functioning, each of which has been shown to predict some type of moral or prosocial behavior: moral intuitions, moral emotions, moral virtues / vices ( behavioral capacities ), moral values, moral reasoning, and moral willpower.

Recent studies in children suggest that if immunotherapy is commenced soon after allergies first develop, it may actually reduce the risk of developing allergic reactions to other allergens, and even reduce the risk of later developing asthma.

Recent studies have found that inherited factors also play a role in the probability that an individual will develop polymyalgia rheumatica.

Recent evidence also shows that sufferers of MPGN Type II kidney disease can develop retinal abnormalities including CSR caused by deposits of the same material that originally damaged the glomerular basement membrane in the kidneys.

These landscapes were first seen in Still Time, and later featured in two shows presented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery in NYC: Sally Mann – Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of Georgia and Virginia in 1997, and then in Deep South: Landscapes of Louisiana and Mississippi in 1999.

Recent work camps and service trips include India ; Nicaragua ; Cuba ; Costa Rica ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Coastal Mississippi ; Israel and The Palestinian territories ; France ; South Africa ; Arizona ; New Orleans, Louisiana ; Americus, Georgia ; South Carolina ; Virginia Beach, Virginia ; Washington, D. C .; West Virginia ; South Korea ; and Vietnam.

Recent presidents of the Eastern Division include Paul Guyer, Edward S. Casey, Daniel Dennett, Virginia Held, John Cooper, T. M.

Recent tours have taken the group to Cleveland, Ohio, Virginia Beach, and St. Louis, Missouri.

Recent Spring Break community service trips have been in “ Coal Country ” in West Virginia, Mexico, Africa and Haiti.

Recent transfers have been accepted to colleges and universities as noted as Wellesley College, Cornell University, Yale University, Washington University in Saint Louis, Smith College, Trinity College, Amherst College, Goucher College, Williams College, American University, Brown University, Wesleyan University, New York University, Columbia University, Johnson & Wales University, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Virginia, and Howard University.

* A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party ( 1867 ), an apologia for the Confederacy.