attempts

Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.

During his early attempts to become a director, he met Alma Reville, an English girl just one day younger than himself.

And eight months on, anger lingers over the ineffective attempts to rescue the missing schoolgirls.

The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.

And its woeful end is a reminder that the U.S. has few good options in its attempts to bring American prisoners home.

I made two attempts to climb up, but both times slipped back.

Yet their quaint attempts to improve their appearance throw an interesting side-light on their æsthetic preferences.

Spontaneous gaiety was gone out of his cousin, whose attempts to be his normal self became forced and unsuccessful.

I may as well say it here: with my poetical productions I was never satisfied any more than with my attempts at drawing.

These first attempts to copy in line the forms of familiar objects are among the most curious products of the child's mind.