1.   Canada insists its motives are purely environmental, portraying the new rule as a noble effort to protect pickerel stocks from overfishing.

2.   Douglas makes a noble effort, and manages to overcome the handicap of slurred speech to marginally win us over.

3.   He also went up against the medical and insurance powers that be by trying to bring universal health care to all Americans, a noble effort that failed.

4.   He even made a noble effort to get tossed.

5.   He failed on Tuesday night and that undid the noble efforts earlier in the game by Wells and Mark Whiten.

6.   He suggested he was more worried about how his parents would take the noble efforts of their beloved son if they were not ultimately successful.

7.   Heart and noble effort count for nothing.

8.   His noble effort does not supersede those of inveterate night wanderers like Bernstein.

9.   Instead, he offers sympathy to a few who sabotaged his noble effort by waging a more damaging war at home.

10.   It was a highly noble effort through nine incredibly tense innings.