Efforts were made to stimulate recruiting, to perfect the organization of the militia, and to hasten the assembling of forces.
Efforts were made to obtain Colonel Morgan a horse.
Efforts were made (unsuccessfully), to cross a portion of the command at other points.
Efforts were made to decoy the train from Nashville into our possession, but unsuccessfully.
After the garrison in it were disposed of, efforts were made to save it.
Efforts were at once made to obtain information on gas preparation by the Germans in front of the British sectors.
Efforts were soon on foot to mobilise British chemists for offensive purposes.
But during this period the utmost efforts were made to develop our own production.
I went through the streets of Pittsburgh, when they were breaking into the stores and seizing arms, and the citizens looked on that indifferently, and no efforts were made to stop that.
During the troubles of the 20th and 21st, efforts were made by the strikers to come to an understanding or compromise with the railroad officials, and a committee to confer with the officials was appointed.
Efforts were made by the committee of public safety to get organized.
Efforts were made by the branches of the West to make collections for that object; but those efforts entirely failed.
Efforts were made by Napoleon's marshals to induce him to give up the losing game and retreat, but he was not to be moved from his purpose.
After the adjournment of the commission, efforts weremade to adjust the boundary question, so far as Lynn Canal was concerned, through an understanding between the two governments.
More than once in the course of conversation I did all in my power, within the limits of politeness and discretion, to extract from General Nazimof a detailed account of this important episode, but my efforts were unsuccessful.
What they wanted most was a plentiful supply of good arms wherewith to defend themselves and attack their neighbours, and it was to this object that their most strenuous efforts were directed.
Efforts were made to remedy the evil, but without success.
Efforts were made to ruin him, but his genius and far-sightedness enabled him to defeat all his enemies with their own weapons.
Efforts were at once made to strengthen the dams, by placing vast quantities of clinch and gravel at the foot of the piles.
Efforts were made to obtain a commutation of sentence, on the ground of the long interval that had elapsed between the perpetration of the murder and the trial of the accused.
Efforts were made, however, to recover the bodies.
Efforts were made by the Hingham fire brigade to preserve the chancel, and were in part successful, but the nave was wholly demolished.
Efforts were made to seduce him from his principles and to ensure his loyalty.
Frightened from their retreats, the judges and chief citizens who had influence with the people rushed to the plaza, and, by their urgent entreaties, efforts were made to extinguish the fire.
Efforts were made to save the life of this eminent soldier, yet Calleja, who had succeeded Venegas as viceroy was too cruelly ungenerous to spare so daring a rebel.
In 1890 efforts weremade by the establishment of a government botanical station at Aburi in the Accra district to induce the natives to improve their methods of cultivation and to enlarge the number of their crops.
He conceived the idea of adding to the British empire the then little known regions of the lower and middle Niger, and for over twenty years his efforts were devoted to the realization of this conception.
Footnote 91: Efforts were made by the British Consul, Holmes, and other pro-Turks, to assign this revolt to Panslavonic intrigues.
Efforts were made by the United States to arrive at a settlement with Costa Rica and Salvador on the basis of a money payment, but without success.
Under the President's direction, however, efforts were made to secure the cooperation of Great Britain and France in promoting the independence of South America.
In consequence of the riot at Panama in 1856, efforts were made by the United States to modify this treaty so as to give the United States greater control and power to protect the means of transit, but without success.
The fate of Rozier and his companion being known, and the awful dangers of balloon ascensions thus forcibly brought home, there was a popular outcry against such attempts and efforts were made to pass laws forbidding them.
Efforts were made to restore communication with Ladysmith, but in vain; yet the troops within kept up a cheerful attitude, and a continuous artillery duel was carried on between besiegers and besieged.
Efforts were made to establish heliographic communication between Estcourt and Ladysmith, but the atmospheric conditions were entirely against the success of the operation.
As has been stated, there was now no outward or visible sign of rank, so for the time being the enemy's efforts were unsuccessful.
All sorts of efforts were made to save Ladysmith from her doom, and an armoured train was sent from Estcourt for the purpose of reestablishing communication with the town, but the train had to return without accomplishing its mission.
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