"I've never lost hope," he said of his efforts to get a major league manager's job.

"This is now a more complex issue," he said of the prosecutors' efforts to share the evidence with the defense.

"I did not know how to cook anything," she said of her first culinary efforts.

"I don't know if there was enough intensity," Low said of his team's effort.

"We had been trying for a long time," Conley says of their efforts to have a baby.

"I didn't know how possible it would be," Peterson said of his initial efforts at training for a 100-mile race.

"It's impossible," he said of his efforts to find a job.

"I think it saved my life," he said of the city's efforts.

"I think it's working," he said of his efforts to raise Christmas spirits.

"The impulse was quite selfish, really," he said of his early efforts.