Mr. Mayfield cautioned, however, that "exploratory efforts by birds to colonize new nesting areas often fail."

Chilingar saw natural gas bubbles in the Gulf of Siam and redirected exploratory efforts, thus saving the nascent Thai oil industry.

His exploratory efforts to win a senior post in the Clinton Administration did not pan out.

The most active introducers of Western enlightenment were the Jesuits, who were, at that time, in the prime of their exploratory efforts.

However, the Portuguese did not give up their exploratory efforts.

They said that whether he eventually became a candidate would depend on whether his exploratory effort yielded adequate political and financial commitments.

Realizing that it could maintain Brazil only if precious minerals were discovered, Portugal increased its exploratory efforts in the late seventeenth century.

The only thing that would keep him from running, he said, would be if his exploratory efforts were greeted with "a great thud, a huge yawn."

After his return to France, he was honored by the Société de Géographie in 1894 for his exploratory efforts.

So the war chests were for voter-registration efforts, political education of constituents, presidential exploratory efforts, that kind of thing.