In a matter of months or years, the entire effort has come undone, and the patient is fat again.

I tried to move, to say something, but the return of the darkness made the entire effort futile.

The entire effort was financed by the sale of Iraqi oil.

Why not focus the entire effort on these young recipients?

The entire effort involved more than $16 billion in direct aid.

The success of the 71st, along on the British right, now began to support the entire effort.

But if they failed, the entire effort would come to nothing.

Such an approach might even make sense of the entire effort.

"That is the key to this entire effort," one administration official said.

That the entire effort had failed was not his fault.