brief attempt

It was the last time, despite Campbell's brief attempt, that Celtic and Rangers stars played in the same team.

After a brief attempt to revive the firm, Mr. Mashinsky resigned in September.

There was a brief attempt by Alston supporters to keep the chair, but it became moot.

After a brief attempt at becoming a professional Australian rules football player in 1988, he went to train at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide and made his first-class debut in 1991.

He made a brief attempt at screenwriting in Hollywood — he is one of several credited writers of “Easy Money,” a 1983 Rodney Dangerfield comedy — before returning East and becoming a sought-after magazine writer.