1.   Over the Decades he has made sincere efforts to boost the visibility of blacks and gays.

2.   ...a sincere effort by two people to thrash out differences about which they have strong feelings.

3.   And they perceive motivations ranging from a sincere effort to repair a broken immigration system to a wily ploy to capture the burgeoning Latino vote for the Republican Party.

4.   As the first non-PRI Cabinet member, Lozano represented what seemed to be a sincere effort by Zedillo to create a more plural government.

5.   Both institutions have been trying to improve, although it is difficult to distinguish between public relations and sincere efforts to change.

6.   After grousing about it for eternities, Republicans are finally making a sincere effort to destroy the welfare state.

7.   But his sincere effort never quite clicks, despite earnest performances by Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker.

8.   But some scams have arisen, and some sincere efforts to help seem disorganized.

9.   Clinton described his efforts to help Ms. Lewinsky find a job not as attempts to win her silence, but as sincere efforts to help an anxious friend.

10.   Faced with unmet goals, it is easy to maintain that sincere effort was all that mattered.