1.  Previous efforts to mandate term limits and balanced budgets and to outlaw flag-burning failed in Congress.

2.  Dividing the colony will merely make its members more vulnerable, they argue, while previous efforts to breed rhinos in captivity have been at best unreliable.

3.  And an atmosphere of fear was what Verhoeven wanted, not the sort of camp that has characterized many previous invisible efforts.

4.  Analysts said the negotiations had a far better chance of succeeding than previous efforts to sell Daewoo Motor, if only because the creditors have run out of options.

5.  And although the church has been renovated several times in this century alone, some previous efforts had caused more damage than was fixed.

6.  And yet the combination reflects weakness as much as strength, as both institutions seek growth in areas where their previous efforts have not been especially successful.

7.  And with labor friendly Democrats wary of international trade agreements and conservative Republicans disdainful of President Clinton, two previous efforts failed.

8.  As in previous efforts, the researchers, who described their work in Nature, used a semiconductor material that is doped with another element to create the photocatalysts.

9.  As Hatcher rightly noted, this game had all the markings of previous subpar efforts.

10.  As with previous efforts, the new release is a mishmash of styles and influences.