All that effort to get every national Olympic committee on board.

After all,their best efforts hadn't done anything but get folks killed.

Look where his efforts to help her had gotten him.

A calculated effort to get more business out of you.

But even before the effort got in full swing, it was cut short.

And then there was that immense effort to get his team over the line on Sunday.

If they'd been out to escape rather than attack, her effort would have got them free.

However, we must all make efforts to get things moving.

"Our efforts at the moment are getting the bridge open."

But the effort to set up an army is just getting under way.