make+an+effort
101exert oneself — make an effort, struggle, toil, labour, try hard …
102lift a hand — make an effort, move, act …
103scramble for promotion — make an effort to receive a promotion …
104squeeze a cork — make an effort in vain, work hard for no result …
105strain every nerve — make every effort possible, give it one s all …
106take courage — make an effort to do something that frightens one. → courage …
107take it easy — make little effort; rest. → the eastward …
108trouble to do something — make the effort required to do something. → trouble …
109Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
110HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …