1.  Her early efforts at writing a novel were awkward.

2.  The early efforts by the suffragists to obtain voting rights for women were met with ridicule.

3.  An early effort to have Gramm resign to allow Gov. Rick Perry to appoint Bonilla to the seat fizzled in a political crossfire involving Gramm and other players.

4.  And, in its eloquence, it is just as stirring as his early efforts.

5.  Both, however, have strongly attacked early Republican efforts.

6.  A related early effort was planting Vinca minor under a nearby crab apple.

7.  Agility training was part of her early efforts at dog handling.

8.  But after she saw the early efforts of Sports Illustrated and Conde Nast, she felt reenergized.

9.  But a higher level of community involvement can cut both ways, as Sun found out in its early efforts to enter the state.

10.  But early efforts at combining phones and organizers have been less than a grand success.