11.   With Congress and public polls against an invasion, Clinton made a belated effort to rally the nation behind him.

12.   After years of resistance, some are now making belated efforts to build downtown housing and light-rail systems.

13.   The whole point of this belated effort at intervention is to impose an end to fighting and remove the vicious Serbian special forces from Kosovo.

14.   With long hitters having changed the game of golf, the Masters opened Thursday with a belated effort by Augusta National to strike back.

15.   Most major newspapers in China carried a number of articles on AIDS in a belated educational effort.