Steny Hoyer of Maryland beat back a determined effort by Pennsylvania's John Murtha to become the next majority leader.
It's all part of this very determined effort, right from the beginning, to put them under pressure.
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The 20th Century can be seen as a determined effort to run the world as if people were things.
Not surprisingly, the Tories have therefore made a determined effort to fudge the distinction between asylum-seekers and the rest.
President Obama has called for a determined effort to free America from the hold of the international oil cartel.
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Particularly egregious has been the Obama administration's determined effort to obscure whether we are even at war and with whom.
But as President Bush told us way back on September 20, 2001, it will take a long-term determined effort to prevail.
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America is making a broad and determined effort to confront these dangers.
But perhaps more importantly, it also represents RIM's most determined effort yet to show consumers that a real smartphone is more than just a pretty face.
On balance, developments since Pittsburgh suggest that a continued and more determined effort across all policy areas is required to meet the objectives set out when we established the Framework.
"For example, we don't intend to compete with Korea on graphene screens, " he said, a reference to Samsung's determined effort to lead the market in flexible electronic screens and e-paper.
He said Mr Starmer's decision "smacks of a determined effort to extradite both these men" and said their cases were worlds apart from that of convicted terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri.
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As expected, the hosts responded with determined effort, Primus denied from close range by Liam Rosenior's goal-line clearance before Pamarot crashed a header onto the bar from Gary O'Neil's pin-point cross.
Barger said he was aware of the skepticism about the LaGuardia return, but said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was making a determined effort to restore service.
The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.
Until now the European Union's single market, though far from perfect, has been a shining example of a sustained and determined effort to bring trade barriers down and of the benefits that brings.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Defense Appropriations Committee Chairman John Murtha are making a determined effort to buy the votes needed to pass legislation similar in its essentials to that just rejected by the Senate.
On this week's programme, the Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said Britain and the United States would make a "very determined effort" to secure United Nations support for any military action against Iraq - but he warned that time was running out for Saddam Hussein to demonstrate his full co-operation with the UN weapons inspectors.
And that's why there was a very determined and concerted effort after that to take a look at what else he might be trying to accomplish here in the homeland.
Of course, the latter choice will be dressed up as a "strategic redeployment, " clearing the way for what is promised to be a more determined and successful effort to go after al Qaeda elsewhere, notably in Afghanistan and perhaps in Pakistan.
Thanks to a determined, worldwide vaccination effort, led by the World Health Organization, the last known human smallpox case occurred over 30 years ago, in Somalia in 1977.
In the final analysis, then, the two parties go into the last hours of battle evenly matched, and the outcome will be determined by whose last-minute effort to get out the vote proves more impressive.
"I'm determined not only to resume the peace process with the Palestinians but to make a serious effort to end this conflict once and for all, " he told reporters before meeting Kerry.
Even more astounding, the IG determined that efforts were made to destroy the permanent record of these transactions, it would seem in an effort to prevent the alterations from coming to light.
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