Everywhere, numbers are low despite strenuous efforts by many business schools to attract more women.
Officials made strenuous efforts to keep disaffected citizens from other provinces away from the capital during the games.
As it is, despite strenuous efforts by America's chief-of-staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, relations have been strained for ages.
China has made strenuous efforts to improve the way it collects and compiles economic data to satisfy international standards.
This prompted officials to order more strenuous efforts to keep petitioners from flocking to Beijing, and certainly well away from the meetings.
He won the presidency with the help of two smaller parties after weeks of strenuous efforts by the opposition to stop him.
Strenuous efforts need to be made and many miracles need to happen before this new security order in Northeast Asia can become a reality.
That would give his pro-Israel credentials a needed pre-election boost, but might shatter all his strenuous efforts to improve America's standing with the Arabs.
Strenuous efforts are made to learn from each death in custody.
The strenuous efforts and encouragements made by other Buddhist nuns and monks who established monasteries in Lumbini and in Kathmandu made my transition here much easier.
Turkey's EU ambitions long pre-date the collapse of communism, and the country has recently made strenuous efforts to meet the EU's membership criteria including the abolition of capital punishment.
Strenuous efforts to promote black business have yielded disappointing results.
After buying them, the bank made strenuous efforts to keep staff, on the assumption that they had close relationships with their customers, and then to increase sales by training them well.
This was that they could make strenuous efforts to qualify for the euro, slashing public spending and holding down wages and other costs, and then relax as soon as they got in.
Strenuous efforts will be needed to capitalize on the opportunities offered by the World Summit on Information Societies (WSIS) to bridge the gender divide which is already apparent within the emerging information society.
Inevitably, there will be strenuous efforts made by the Bush Administration, other Western governments and numerous private banks to stampede the former Soviet Union into a commitment to secure all debt obligations beyond the very limited rescheduling of principal payments already agreed for 1992.
Unfortunately, education is so deeply entrenched as a Democratic issue that even the most strenuous Republican efforts look defensive.
It's also not clear what more strenuous and public efforts to promote change in Libya would have achieved.
The world is replete with examples of government investment gone bad from the calamities of command economies like those in China and the former Soviet Union, to the strenuous but lackluster efforts by dozens of states in the U.S. to subsidize innovation, easily adding up to billions of dollars over the years.
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