Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together.

All their efforts were in vain.

Today, Liddell Hart would probably encourage the West to concentrate its efforts on helping the Kurdish fighters in the Middle East and aiding Ukraine s government in Eastern Europe.

The choice was made to concentrate the attack on only one part of the vast front efforts would be directed at capturing Moscow.

Your efforts are futile.

For all her efforts, she didn't succeed.

His efforts were in vain.

But even with their best efforts, the process will take time.

With all his efforts, he failed the test.

Indeed , the short term approach aims to concentrate efforts on one specific subcategory of OFIs ( see Section 3.2 .

Tarkovsky initially showed interest but then decided to concentrate on his studies and his own projects.

After all his efforts, he also failed this time.

I hope your efforts will bear fruit.

Their efforts have had limited coverage in the mainstream media.

He failed in spite of his great efforts.

Despite Henry's efforts, the succession was disputed.

His efforts were not a complete success, but he managed to stave off the worst outcome.

Her success is the result of her efforts.

Bombardier resumed his efforts to build a miniature snowmobile.

Collaboration with the United Kingdom The British and Americans exchanged nuclear information but did not initially combine their efforts.

He's beginning to focus, he can concentrate now.

His efforts were recognized both at home and abroad.

Her efforts won Catherine new respect from the French people.

Langley's attempts to gain further funding failed, and his efforts ended.

Throughout the trial, Kepler postponed his other work to focus on his harmonic theory .

I need to concentrate.

Let me concentrate.

The causes were the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, the efforts by the various states within the Empire to increase their power and the Catholic Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of the Empire.

Later, Prudente de Morais devoted all of his efforts to pacify the policial factions within his country, which included extreme advocates of the centralist policies of Floriano Peixoto and supporters of the monarchy.

Rather than focusing on shrinking the size of existing fleets, European leaders should focus on getting more out of them.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio.

To coordinate its efforts , the industry has set up a self regulatory body to manage the SEPA project .

Cocteau's opium use and his efforts to stop profoundly changed his literary style.

The Eurosystem welcomes the fact that banks have stepped up their efforts to achieve this goal .

Given this, policymakers should redouble their efforts to reduce poverty by supporting sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

The Kennedy administration sought to refocus U.S. efforts on pacification and winning over the hearts and minds of the population.

The result of this attack is disputed, but the Varangians continued their efforts as they regularly sailed on their monoxyla down the Dnieper into the Black Sea.

This was not, of course, the only defining characteristic of each group.

These efforts were met with resistance and limited success.

When Mark returned to Alexandria, the pagans of the city resented his efforts to turn the Alexandrians away from the worship of their traditional gods.

Poor countries promised to refocus their development efforts while rich countries pledged to support them with finance, technology, and access to their markets.

The Lamont School of Music is a structured conservatory setting which allows students to focus on their talents in a competitive manner.

All efforts have been unavailing.

Turkey s initiatives have lost steam, and the United States and its European allies are merely going through the diplomatic motions in practice, their efforts imply little serious impact on the regime.

I must concentrate.