Medicare officials have accused health maintenance organizations of sending false information to their elderly subscribers in an effort to mobilize them to pressure Congress.

"Val didn't send you here in an effort to bypass John, did he?"

He would transmit any messages she wanted to send in an effort to reassure any concerned relatives.

Colombia announced this week that it would send 5,000 of its troops to the border region in an effort to improve the situation.

Another donor sent handmade quilts in an effort to settle her tax bill.

The memo was sent last month in an unsuccessful effort to forestall a drop in the city's bond rating.

For the last twenty years, my world has been sending scouts to each of the other nine worlds in an effort to monitor them.

Syria sent troops into Lebanon in an effort to stop a civil war there.

Pakistan has sent 70,000 troops - the army's first deployment in the tribal areas - in an effort to apprehend them.

The two nations sent troops to Lesotho last September in an effort to restore order after months of political unrest.