The Colonel's occasional efforts to wring information out of her yielded nothing.

But those occasional efforts don't constitute a diplomatic or economic strategy.

Gordon Hughes made occasional efforts in conversation that were too glaringly irrelevant to the real subject of our thoughts.

We never agreed. They were both bullies and each made occasional efforts at bullying the other without any particular result.

He despised us for our stupidity and fecklessness; he respected us for our occasional efforts to surmount our natural disabilities.

These measures have rarely been accompanied by moves to pay for them, and occasional efforts to fill the funding gap have fallen short.

That number would probably not include Anne Edwards who, despite occasional efforts at critical objectivity, falls pretty much into the category of slavish hagiographer.

As he proceeded, however, in its perusal, the story grew upon him, and he became unconscious of her occasional efforts to control his attention.

Even in a palace, life can be lived well; and even in a Parliament, life can be lived with occasional efforts to live it well.

Occasional efforts had been made to patch things up.