11.   He devoted special efforts to the Middle East.

12.   He was pondering whether to devote his efforts to technology itself or to content.

13.   It is not surprising that the cancer establishment, which has devoted so much effort to persuading women to have mammograms, is unsettled.

14.   Needless to say, the PR people devoted maximum effort to keeping the media at bay at the exact time that they should have been explaining and interpreting nonstop.

15.   No government agency depends more on the tests, administers them more often or has devoted more effort to extending their use to other agencies.

16.   Nor, for all their complaints about Mexican corruption, have U.S. law enforcement officials devoted much effort to solving the specific problems that such corruption creates.

17.   On the one hand, your manager may have high expectations of you and is willing to devote extra effort toward critiquing and improving your performance.

18.   Others have devoted considerable effort to researching the possibilities of muscle-maintenance treatments, only to strike out in the labs.

19.   Secretary of State Christopher devoted much effort in the climactic last days in Dayton to toughening those provisions.

20.   She also devoted much effort to running a salon in her Georgetown home as the Democrats worked to regain the White House.