It is easy to criticize large cities, but maybe such efforts will slow the criticism, or even reverse it.

After fundraising efforts slowed, the school delayed construction until 2010.

Divers were hired to blow them up, but the effort slowed dredging.

As we went, the effort slowed our pace.

While the Government's efforts have slowed, the crux of the problem remains in the economics of the private market.

These efforts have substantially slowed the population decline and has stabilized many parts of Milwaukee.

He tried to resist, but his efforts didn't even slow him down.

He intensified his spell, though the effort slowed him.

But these efforts would only slow a determined attacker.

But fund-raising efforts, marred by a degree of hubris, soon slowed.