31.   Attempts to change it go back decades and have defied the best efforts of attorneys general like Edward Levi and FBI directors like Judge William Webster.

32.   Attendance sagged despite his best efforts.

33.   Best effort.

34.   -- They put their best effort into what they do and get satisfaction out of doing it.

35.   A good trial lawyer spins a story from threads of fact and possibility, and Marvyn Kornberg made his best effort.

36.   A parent discovers that, despite her best efforts, her daughter finds sex on the internet.

37.   A year-old speech decrying the morals of Hollywood is still heralded by his campaign as his best effort to reach out to the Religious Right.

38.   After being benched in the fourth quarter against the New York Giants three weeks ago, Smith responded in the next game with his best effort of the season.

39.   Against Stanford and Arizona, however, a sense of urgency elicits their best effort.

40.   But despite her best efforts she was still three chairs short on Friday.