11.   If the nation can mount a national effort against cigarettes, why not do the same for obesity, the journal asked in an editorial.

12.   Japan has mounted determined efforts to recover the bones of soldiers who fell on distant battlefields during World War II.

13.   Last year the HRC and other gay rights groups mounted an effort to persuade gay and lesbian couples to fill out census forms accurately.

14.   Opponents mounted an effort last fall to rescind the original vote but were rebuffed by a large margin in a second statewide referendum.

15.   President Reagan was attempting to mount efforts against Communist Sandinistas, who had taken over Nicaragua.

16.   So now, a few efforts are being mounted to get Hollywood to portray scientists in a more realistic light, as people with more complex drives and emotions.

17.   So now, efforts are being mounted to get Hollywood to portray scientists in a more realistic light, as people with more complex drives and emotions.

18.   States have enacted no new laws on the procedure, and no sustained effort has been mounted in Congress to enact a federal one.

19.   Students and former students have mounted lobbying efforts to keep the bonfire burning.

20.   The origins of the partnership go back more than two decades, when the first effort was mounted to develop the supersonic transport plane.