effort

Preposition: towards

disarmament: Asserts that efforts toward disarmament must be taken both regionally and globally and welcomes initiatives already taken.

Converse of object

• make: We have made every effort to retain many of the original features.
• coordinate: The Demining 2010 Initiative, through US leadership, will seek to coordinate these efforts.
• expend: Similarly where adjustments in the effort expended on academic work are made there are also implications for what happens at the operational level.
• require: In general, new activities require voluntary effort to master them.
• put: There was an enormous effort put in to raise this money.
• undermine: These attempts invariably weaken the Labor left and undermine efforts to unite the left around a common alternative economic and political strategy.

Adjective modifier

• concerted: It will take a concerted effort to undo the damage done in the last eight years.
• considerable: Considerable communal efforts would have been required for their construction.
• collaborative: Since 1986, she's been staging co-productions collaborative efforts made with the input and influence of other cities, mainly European.
• reasonable: It is expected that students and staff will make reasonable efforts to resolve matters at the outset.
• strenuous: Strenuous efforts were made over the four months of the project to identify all the final reports of the relevant funded research.
• conscious: Basically, any conscious effort to exercise your brain can potentially create new brain cell connections.

Preposition: on

behalf: Public sector staff welcome such recognition of their efforts on behalf of customers.

Noun used with modifier

• fundraising: Auction donations are an everyday way to raise money, complementing your current fundraising efforts.
• relief: The YMCA Movement is also coming together in this relief effort.
• war: How did horse chestnuts help the war effort during the First World War?
• reconstruction: Health, education, and psychosocial support also need to be central to any national reconstruction efforts.
• rescue: Grampian Police said the rescue effort was helped by favorable conditions.
• solo: Goal of the Week is awarded to Arsenal's Sylvain Wiltord for his stunning solo effort against Birmingham.