Across this another door barred his way; but this, too, gave before his efforts, for it was not barred.

Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman, said, "This is a law enforcement matter that began before our efforts to conclude a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement."

The wrapping paper seemed to moan before their relentless efforts.

Before Mr. Murray's suburban logging efforts, almost all of the trees cleared for home- and road-building on Long Island ended up as landfill or firewood.

MacFarland's got on very well before your well-meant efforts to turn it into a bear-garden.

Before their efforts, the variation was called the Lasker-Pelikan Variation.

KTBC described Town Lake before Butler's efforts as an "eyesore".

Before Costello's efforts, there were only three non-governmental American shortwave broadcasters on the air; by the end of the decade, that number had increased to sixteen.

The Met's populism in the parks, however, began long before Mr. Gelb's admirable efforts to bring opera to the masses.

They all looked much older, somehow, than they had before their efforts on her behalf.