The ruling does not mean that colleges should abandon their worthwhile and necessary efforts to improve graduation rates among athletes.

Almost paradoxically, 2010 may be unnecessary, but it is nevertheless a worthwhile effort.

Although it may be unfair to criticize the laudable and worthwhile efforts in this direction over many years, the focus has probably been rather narrow.

But with the odds already against us, it seems a worthwhile effort.

Surely this was a worthwhile effort on Mr. Jackson's part.

He said the trial had been "a worthwhile effort to prosecute those who are responsible for many political, moral and legal crimes."

There was often the feeling of worthwhile effort undermined not by how the musicians played but what they were playing on.

Do you agree that this is a worthwhile effort?

For me this has been a worthwhile effort.

But this kind of old-fashioned bullying does more than just undo China's worthwhile efforts to project a friendly international image.