Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

In particular, the daily burnt offerings sacrificed by the priests twice each day, and emitting this pleasing odor: these were an effort to attract the deity.

尤其是每天两次的烧祭品,散发出美妙的气味：,这些都是为了吸引神灵的注意。

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The food guide pyramid was the government's effort, put through by the U.S. Department of Agriculture about what people should eat optimally.

食物金字塔是政府努力的结果,它是由美国农业部提出的,关于人们最佳饮食结构的建议

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Now,after years of effort by gay rights groups and others, the law will include sexual orientation.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

If we lowered the degree of synergy, what would happen to the effort level that we'd find by this method? What would happen?

如果我们降低了协同度,在这种情况下,结果会是什么样的呢

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Sarnoff helped the rescue effort by informing other ships about the accident.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

But the Senate failed in the effort by one vote.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Critics of the president denounced the speech as an effort by the White House to promote the president's domestic agenda.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

Kites was the first big-budget effort by the Hindi film industry to make a movie which would appeal to mainstream audiences in India and in Western countries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The visit to Damascus by U.S.envoy Mitchell is another step in what has been a cautious effort by the Obama administration to draw Syria into diplomatic engagement after years of strained relations.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

This is the time of year when we see usually an effort by the insurgents to knock us of course and to try and attack the coalition and indeed the government of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

So we thought that it's timely, especially that this year, there was a great effort by UNAIDS invested in the region to ensure that all the countries will actually report and live up to their commitments made to the 2001 Declaration in the U.N.General Assembly Special Session on HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

He said the mission in Iraq is changing from a military effort led by troops to a civilian effort led by diplomats.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

The effort will help reduce carbon dioxide releases from the Empire State Building by more than one hundred thousand tons a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

"I don't think that,uh, unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support, that the war can be won out there."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The southern effort to settle Kansas was led mostly by slave-owning farmers in Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

But they could not prove their charges, and their effort failed by one vote.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

What killed him was the effort made by doctors to find the bullet.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

"What is necessary in this case is a collective effort, not only by the researchers and the people on the ground, but also the donor community, because controlling those two diseases can go a long way in improving people's food security and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa."

VOA: special.2009.09.21

OSSIE DAVIS: "Baseball should be taken seriously by the colored player -- and in this effort of his great ability will open the avenue in the near future wherein he may walk hand in hand with the opposite race in the greatest of all American games -- baseball."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Fan says the Aceh relief effort is motivated in part by gratitude for all the help Aceh received after the tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

In 2005,then-minority Senate Democrats mounted an unsuccessful effort to filibuster the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated by former-President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Republicans and Democrats expressed identical concerns that by engaging in negotiations, Iran may be playing for time in an effort to move ahead with weapons-related enrichment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

When Ghanaian goalkeeper Daniel Agyei then saved Brazilian Alex Teixeira's effort, Emmanuel Badu clinched the cup by placing his shot in the corner of the net.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Ambassador Hill said recent bomb attacks in Iraq are an effort to undermine the Iraqi people as U.S.forces gradually withdraw under a timetable established by President Barack Obama."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

He says the U.S.military is making every effort to meet the priorities set by the Haitian government and the United Nations to determine which flights are allowed to land.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Britain's new cabinet agreed to cut the pay of all ministers by five percent, the first step in what is to be a major effort to cut Britain's national deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

Administration officials say the CIA will continue to take part in interrogations, but that an FBI official will direct the effort with oversight by the National Security Council, which reports directly to the president.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The flotilla aimed to break a blockade that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip in an effort to stop weapons from reaching the region that is controlled by the militant Hamas movement.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

The United States had tried to mediate in the simmering dispute that led to the coup, centering on what Mr.Zelaya's opponents saw as an effort to remain in power even though obligated by term limits to leave office in January.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01