The evangelical environmental group is part of a larger effort spearheaded by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, joining different religious traditions with secular environmentalists.

But in 1931, in an effort spearheaded by Mary Breckinridge, the group created the first school of nurse-midwifery in the United States.

Mr. Leahy did confirm that a Democratic effort spearheaded by Clinton allies to get senators to sign an anti-impeachment petition had never gotten off the ground.

Appearing in 1963, it was the product of an effort spearheaded by musique concrète composer Morton Subotnick.

With the suit, the state belatedly joined a longstanding effort, spearheaded by federal prosecutors, to crack down on certain drug-pricing practices.

That was the city's first historic district, designated in 1965, an effort spearheaded by the Brooklyn Heights Association.

It began in 1984 as an effort spearheaded by then Mayor Wilson Goode to eradicate the graffiti crisis plaguing the city.

The genetic basis of HD was discovered in 1993 by an international collaborative effort spearheaded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

This has application to the development of ecash, an effort originally spearheaded by David Chaum.

The opening-day crowds were a fitting culmination to a four-year effort spearheaded by residents and business owners who raised the money to renovate and open the library.