1.   And as Riccardo on Thursday, the honest effort in his performance was palpable.

2.   And their son, filled with honest effort, hope, and pride, is an American boy with a limitless English-speaking future.

3.   At least he had the fish on and gave it an honest effort.

4.   Before our adventure, there were some honest efforts to calm our fears.

5.   A former senior executive at BankBoston, who now works across town at another bank, said Gifford made an honest effort to involve employees in the decision-making process.

6.   But at least they are giving this honest effort until someone thinks of some other stuff to try.

7.   But BC is expected to play hard, play with heart and give an honest effort.

8.   But Dillemuth maintained that Holo-X also represents an honest effort to find a wider audience for experimental poetry and hypertext fiction.

9.   But he insisted that the criteria developed for the scorecard reflected an honest effort to show the public which resorts are demonstrating the most sensitivity to environmental issues.

10.   But I am convinced that with Barak we will at least have an honest effort to get over them.