However, it is also likely that the professional politicians will make every effort to gain control of any such movement.

There could be similar damage to the community's efforts to gain political representation, he added.

This effort to gain greater control of trade is part of that plan.

It's a relatively small investment on our part in an effort to try and gain some real size.

In an effort to gain evidence, the police department sent a letter to 200 parents of current and former children at the school.

But the lower courts rejected the union's effort to gain access to school buildings during the day.

The effort to gain their cooperation seemed to be successful, but they remained limited.

We moved continuously in an effort to gain some small comfort, to get just a little sleep.

In his effort to gain more information and land bigger fish, he'd allowed a crime to progress beyond the point where he had it stopped.

The following week the government began to negotiate with other parties in an effort to gain backing for the bill.