His decades-long efforts to punish her, to break and humble her, had failed.

It concerns the decades-long effort by one brutally efficient dictator to build weapons of mass destruction: biological, chemical and, above all, nuclear.

The decades-long effort to save the Florida panther, one of the country's most endangered animals, is being pursued on several fronts.

This insidious regression was part of the decades-long effort by political conservatives to roll back the historic civil rights advances of blacks and others.

It is the culmination of a decades-long effort by the Islamic Community of Slovenia.

In fact, experts have recently found that the decades-long efforts to limit one serious heart risk smoking is expected to pay off with longer life spans.

The current species are larger, healthier and stronger than ever before, thanks to the decades-long efforts of the New Jersey Mosquito Control Commission.

Now, less than a week after that decades-long effort had come to fruition, he had succeeded in placing himself upon the imperial throne.

The truth is, the whole decades-long effort to develop "artificial intelligence" has been a crashing disappointment, as even its boosters acknowledge.

He is best known for his decades-long efforts in popular mathematics and science journalism, particularly through his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American.