This was the last effort to break out of Paris.

He was most forthcoming with his plans to move to another state, to make an effort to break from the danger of the streets.

We are not allowed to become part of the client's effort to break the law.

To the contrary, she hasn't made much of an effort to break into Hollywood.

He made no effort to break from the hands that held him.

But this did not seem to be the right moment to tell it all of the truth, because its efforts to break free had intensified.

She also said there were no signs of any effort to break into the house.

"We think we've contained an effort to break out of the agreement," one American official said today.

And if he was, what did it mean in the effort to break the enemy's will to fight?

Officials of the teachers' union called the move an effort to break the union.