"So you believe now that further effort to control the storm is useless?"

The lack of national legislation frustrates local efforts to control guns.

You do see efforts to control this sort of runoff in some cities.

Administration officials are also worried that Ukraine's stand may hurt efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons.

It would also prevent any future efforts to control nicotine levels in cigarettes.

Even the most valiant efforts to control costs, however, cannot hold back the demographic pressures to spend more on health research and services.

Several of the recent cases involved efforts to control what candidates said, not what they spent.

So as a further effort to control population growth, the authorities often require women to be sterilized after they have had two children.

The courts, for example, have found most efforts to control contributions unconstitutional.

Rain made an effort to control herself, control the situation.