In 1967 Honeywell sued Sperry Rand in an attempt to break their ENIAC patents, arguing the ABC constituted prior art.

An attempt to break through the English lines was defeated.

On 11 November 1975, Whitlam intended to call a half-Senate election in an attempt to break the deadlock.

The book Cracking DES ( O ' Reilly and Associates ) tells of the successful attempt to break 56-bit DES by a brute force attack mounted by a cyber civil rights group with limited resources ; see EFF DES cracker.

* 1989 – Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.

After an urgent call for help from the Legation, Seymour set out on 10 June with 2000 troops to attempt to break through to Peking.

At dawn on 4 January 1967, Campbell and his team felt weather and lake conditions were suitable for an attempt to break his existing record.

A December 1093 attempt to break the siege failed.

On 26 / 27 July, Auchinleck launched Operation Manhood in the northern sector in a final attempt to break the Axis forces.

This was the third attempt to break through in the northern sector, and the Axis defenders were expecting the attack.

A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

In preparation for the next attempt to break the Greek blockade, the Ottoman Admiralty decided to create a diversion by sending the light cruiser Hamidiye, captained by Rauf Bey, to raid Greek merchant shipping in the Aegean.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.

Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.

Templars were often the advance force in key battles of the Crusades, as the heavily armoured knights on their warhorses would set out to charge at the enemy, in an attempt to break opposition lines.

He would reform taxes and attempt to break the feudal system, in order to undercut rivals, the most important of which was also named Bashir: Bashir Jumblatt, whose wealth and feudal backers equaled or exceeded Bashir II – and who had increasing support in the Druze community.

In 1998, Lycos paid $ 58 million ($ million today ) for Tripod in an attempt to " break into the portal market.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.

* 2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3, 000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there ; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.

Since all contact between the wrestlers must cease if any part of the body is touching, or underneath, the ropes, many wrestlers will attempt to break submission holds by deliberately grabbing the bottom ropes.

Wilson described his work as an " attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth ".

In neighboring Cambodia, at that time known as the Khmer Republic, the Khmer Rouge used siege tactics to cut off supplies from Phnom Penh to other government-held enclaves in an attempt to break the will of the government to continue fighting.

This record attempt was held in the WTC Expo hall in Leeuwarden.

Campbell now reverted to Bluebird K7 for a further attempt on the water speed record.

The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.

In 2003, the BBC showed a documentary reconstruction of Campbell's fateful water-speed record attempt in an episode of Days That Shook the World.

They became friends and, within a year, he asked her to join him in Los Angeles for another attempt to record his first solo album.

In the early 1950s an English couple built a hydrofoil water craft called the White Hawk that was jet powered in an attempt to beat the absolute water speed record.

The OEDs official policy is to attempt to record a word's most-known usages and variants in all varieties of English past and present, worldwide.

Whatever the field or focus of a project, oral historians attempt to record the memories of many different people when researching a given event.

The periodization of origins is an attempt to classify time periods in the distant past for which there is no direct record.

( This was not the first attempt at a commercial long play record format, as Edison Records had marketed a microgroove vertically recorded disc with 20 minutes playing time per side the previous decade ; the Edison long-playing records were also a commercial failure.

Rudolf Wolf studied the historical record in an attempt to establish a database on past cyclic variations.

In total, the Steelers limited the Vikings to Super Bowl record lows of nine first downs, 119 total offensive yards, 17 rushing yards, and no offensive scores ( Minnesota's only score came on a blocked punt, and they did not even score on the extra point attempt ).

Icelandic chronicles record another attempt to visit Vinland from Greenland, over a century after the saga voyages.

* April 11 – Aviator Bill Lancaster takes off in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the Cape of Good Hope, but vanishes ( his body is not found in the Sahara Desert until 1962 ).

On record, the closest historical attempt was produced by a scientist James Mold.

The note is widely assumed to reflect an anti-synth, pro -" hard "- rock stance by the band, but was later revealed by producer Roy Thomas Baker to be an attempt to clarify that those albums ' multi-layered solos were created with guitars, not synths, as record company executives kept assuming at the time.

It concluded in 2008 that Taleyarkhan's name should have appeared in the author list because of his deep involvement in many steps of the research, that he added one author that had not really participated in the paper just to overcome the criticism of one reviewer, and that this was part of an attempt of " an effort to falsify the scientific record by assertion of independent confirmation ".

He did not attempt to record her voice because her Southern accent made it almost impossible for him to understand her.

This causes Graulich and Gillespie to suggest that the general Aztec cyclical view of time, where events repeated themselves at the end and beginning of cycles or eras was being inscribed into the historical record by the Aztecs, making it futile to attempt to distinguish between a historical Topiltzin Ce Acatl and a Quetzalcoatl deity.

Further design modifications were made by Kreisel over the next ten years, and in the 1970s and 1980s by engineer John P. D ' Arcy ; record producer Daniel Levitin served as a consultant and " golden ears " for the design of the crossover network ( used to partition the frequency spectrum so that the subwoofer would not attempt to reproduce frequencies too high for its effective range, and so that the main speakers would not need to handle frequencies too low for their effective range ).

If there was an attempt by any of the states of Lycia to join forces, as happened in Greece 50 years later, there is no record of it, suggesting that no central government existed.

It is often carried out as an athletic challenge in a competition or for a record attempt.

He did pen one episode of Steve Canyon ; " Operation B-52 "; a story where Canyon and his crew attempt to set a new around the world non-stop speed record in a B-52 with a newsman aboard who hates Air Force pilots.