But if livestock loss is not the real issue, what exactly has made wolf restoration such a complicated, divisive and expensive effort?

Rain during and after the concert complicated efforts to clean up the mess.

The history of "physiography" itself is at best a complicated effort.

This in itself sets the scene for the unbelievably complicated efforts of religious leaders and scholars to define just who Jesus Christ was.

This fact complicated efforts to map the gene via linkage disequilibrium [ 60].

In those states, they said, the reports had served to fuel disputes and complicated efforts to resolve problems.

A complicated effort to wrap the various treaties governing the union into a single document foundered on the French rejection of the draft constitution.

Trying to get in touch with these free movers was a complicated and often fruitless effort.

Mr. Gore learned last year how complicated efforts to aid poorer nations can be when negotiations with pharmaceutical companies are involved.

They are already contributing with peacekeepers, logistics and intelligence to the West's complicated efforts in the Balkans.