The signal-making, for all its elaborate effort, was absolutely pointless.

The sport utility vehicles also held clues of the attackers' elaborate efforts to pass as American.

Her sniffles had only grown worse since their arrival, in spite of elaborate efforts to stop them.

This time, Japan is making elaborate efforts to make it appear that each company is acting on its own.

All their elaborate efforts to abide by the strict letter of the law had paid off well enough.

In the new study the Government made a creative and elaborate effort to overcome some of these possible biases.

The Japanese political process is traditionally described as an elaborate effort to achieve harmony and consensus.

Eyes were riveted upon the more elaborate efforts of the stars.

This will be a more elaborate effort than any casino has made in the past.

Single-issue constituencies dominated politics in the 1970s, and campaigns needed to make elaborate efforts to court them.