This led to some occasional efforts to maintain the cemetery, most significantly in 1886.

But occasional efforts to eradicate the game have not been popular.

Yet, occasional efforts to do something concrete are frustrated with puzzling regularity.

They're good enough at gathering information that we've made the occasional effort to crack their communications.

Despite occasional efforts to restore the political process, violence and terrorism characterized the Algeria landscape during the 1990s.

Still, one must not be churlish about commercial television's occasional effort to do the right thing.

Kira was too hardened by a difficult life to be all that sympathetic, despite the occasional efforts she made.

She, too, had been frustrated in her occasional efforts to make friends and often felt wrongly accused.

Once I'm dead, she'll be back to having to make do with your clumsy occasional efforts at lovemaking.

There is no local road clean up except through the occasional efforts of volunteers.