And we most certainly will make our best effort to pay it back.

His effort to court the big business might pay, if he will raise enough money.

Those efforts may be paying off - at least for now.

The efforts, which included a minimum ticket price of $17.50, paid off.

All his efforts eventually paid off and many new movie companies were soon formed.

On July 1, she got word that her efforts had paid off.

Another few seconds and we would know if our effort had paid off.

But he said the record of reconstruction in Iraq would probably hurt efforts to pay for future projects.

All this effort has been paying dividends for several years.

The real question was whether her effort had paid off.