21.   The attention seems to have accelerated remediation efforts.

22.   The administration also is accelerating efforts to help unite feuding Kurdish and other groups into a cohesive opposition.

23.   The Army and Marine Corps, which have their own UAVs under development, are preparing to accelerate their efforts, too.

24.   The company also says it is accelerating efforts to cut costs.

25.   The leaders also promised to accelerate efforts to assist one another in the economic and political transformation of the region after decades of strife and catastrophic natural disasters.

26.   The passage of a California ballot initiative and the drubbing of Democrats in the midterm elections will likely accelerate efforts to toughen immigration policy.

27.   The reports of desertions took place as Russian and European officials accelerated their efforts to find a diplomatic end to the war in Kosovo.

28.   The senators are right to urge him to accelerate the effort.

29.   The United States accelerated its efforts after the bombings and aggressively sought the support of other nations to break up his network.

30.   A limited extension of the treaty would only encourage certain states to accelerate efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, Holum said.