1.   At a hearing, the committee released documents showing the intense backdoor efforts to present the case for a pardon in the final weeks of the Clinton presidency.

2.   At the monasteries sprinkled throughout the region, monks say, there are intense efforts to control their daily operations.

3.   Because it was believed that blacks were generally supportive of gambling, there were intense efforts to maximize the black vote.

4.   Both appeared drained from their intense efforts Sunday afternoon.

5.   ...The crown prince expressed his deep appreciation for the intense efforts exerted by the president and his administration to break the impasse in the current Middle East crisis.

6.   A more effective governmental response to child poverty, she says, would be a more intense effort to decrease early childbearing.

7.   After an intense lobbying effort and much legal wrangling, the project was scaled down and located downstream from the Miller plant.

8.   After intense effort, he transferred to a mainstream school and excelled.

9.   After intense diplomatic efforts, however, the balloon was allowed to proceed.

10.   But after an intense lobbying effort by the energy industry, Bush reversed course.