He made no effort to open the envelope or remove its contents.
His efforts to remove political patronage met with only limited success, however.
He is challenging the company's effort to remove him from the board.
The legal effort to remove the creche continued the following year.
"But there is a very determined effort to remove me and bring somebody else in."
They have been making every effort to remove themselves from the acute-care system.
Vlok said that the move was a further effort to "remove the police from the political playing field".
A serious effort to remove the homeless requires social services and housing.
But the county made no effort to remove the family.
It'll take them a couple of weeks to find out and mount an effort to remove you.