1.   Altering the federal judicial system is not something to be undertaken lightly, or in a transparent effort to change the outcome of decisions.

2.   Democrats dismissed such allegations as a transparent effort to discredit the hand counts.

3.   It is a transparent effort to buy time and circle the wagons and figure out what to do next.

4.   One policeman said the withdrawal was partial, a sham and a transparent effort by Israel to ease international pressure.

5.   The Defend America Act is a transparent effort to manufacture an issue to help resuscitate the Dole campaign.

6.   The main discordant note is the transparent effort to paper over his blatantly political decision on welfare.