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She gave up after several attempts.

It was a deliberate attempt to mislead people.

He made no attempt to help me.

He made an attempt at humour.

The young birds manage to fly several kilometres at their first attempt.

On the first attempt he made it no further than modern Morocco.

This is...This is just a clumsy attempt at discouragement.

In an attempt to overcome these disadvantages, Thomas Savery in 1698 and Thomas Newcomen in 1705 invented the first primitive steam engines.

This involves moving young coral from a healthy reef onto a degraded reef, you know, in an attempt to regenerate the degraded reef by encouraging young healthy coral to take over.

Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.

The "Eidophusikon" was Loutherbourg's attempt to release painting from the constraints of the picture frame.

Whether people can remember an event depends critically on the fit between the way in which they earlier encoded the information and the way in which they later attempt to retrieve it.

But the first attempt the United States government made to, you know, to support the arts was the Federal Art Project.

It was a long time since I had attempted any study.

Before I could attempt a reply he laughed.

Weather conditions prevented them from attempting the jump.

It was you? You attempted to kill the Queen.

More esoteric texts attempt to explain old Babylonian customs, such as the procedure for curing someone who is ill, which included rubbing tar and gypsum on the sick person's door and drawing a design at the foot of the person's bed.

Much more is known about Anaximander than about Anaximenes, probably because Anaximander, who was born sometime around 610 B.C.E, ambitiously attempted to write a comprehensive history of the universe.

Now, in the past, researchers have attempted to treat solid organic waste with that same equipment.

There was a study using pigeons, where researchers attempted to reduce MSR to a matter of conditioning, that is, they claimed that the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror could be learned.

So it’s no surprise that someone attempted to design an objective way to measure distraction.

In addition, Teotihuacán’s elite may have consciously attempted to attract new inhabitants.

The artists strived diligently to make their animal images evocative and realistic because they were attempting to capture the spirit of their prey.

Farmers are attempting to slow the development of insect resistance in Bt crops by, for example, planting nontransgenic border rows to provide a refuge for susceptible insects.

Another factor is that the United States Forest Service in the first decade of the 1900s adopted the policy of fire suppression (attempting to put out forest fires) for the obvious reason that it did not want valuable timber to go up in smoke, or people's homes and lives to be threatened.

Now, in addition to characters, the setting is extremely important, especially when attempting to tell a story realistically.

Of the various hypotheses attempting to account for the late Cretaceous extinctions, the one that has attracted the most attention in recent years is the asteroid-impact hypothesis first suggested by Luis and Walter Alvarez.

As a result, modern farmers attempting to grow corn in the ancient Maya homelands have faced frequent crop failures, especially in the north.

Many have been attempting to conserve water by irrigating less frequently or by switching to crops that require less water.

Um, it isn’t really a scientific law, not in the sense of predicting gravitation mathematically or something, but it’s attempting a pattern in the spacing of the planets, and it was noticed by Bode hundreds of years ago.

It was not bad for a first attempt.

There were several attempts on her life.

I have made two serious attempts on my life.