Attempting to avoid these problems, he placed the existing components in a case with additional " slots ", so that the missing components could be plugged in later when they became available.

Attempting to avoid this error, speakers of the Düsseldorf accent hypercorrect it to an abundance of ' ch '.

Attempting to avoid a beatdown by the locals, he attempts to deflect attention to one of the locals by accusing him of being " a friend of them long haired, hippie-type, pinko fags " sent by the FBI to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Attempting to avoid a child, Dobbs ' car was in collision with a military vehicle in Doncaster, and he was killed instantly.

Attempting to avoid Soviet forces, the regiment was ordered to take a different route to that planned.

Attempting to avoid yet another fight, Williams and Melvin Franklin sneaked out of the Copa immediately after the show, infuriating Kendricks to the point that he left as well and didn't return for the next show.

Attempting to manipulate Green Arrow ( Connor Hawke ) and new hero Aztek into betraying the League — Hawke was seemingly seduced by Circe into believing that the League looked down on him and Luthor revealed that he had provided the financial support necessary to create Aztek's armour —, Luthor had intended to force the League to disband and subsequently form a new League under his control.

Attempting to kill him during a knife duel, Milia is defeated and falls in love with Max, and the two are subsequently married.

Attempting to remain neutral during the war, Maximilian signed the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau ( 1631 ) with the Kingdom of France, but this proved worthless.

* Attempting to explain Mercury's solar orbit, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier proposes the existence of a hypothetical planet, Vulcan, inside its orbit and amateur astronomer Edmond Modeste Lescarbault claims to have observed it during March.

* January 5 – Attempting to land at Koltsovo Airport at Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Unions Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic during a heavy snowstorm with high winds, a Soviet Air Force Lisunov Li-2 crashes, killing all 19 people on board.

* July 24 – Attempting to land at Pattimura Airport on Ambon Island in Indonesia during a heavy thunderstorm, Mandala Airlines Flight 660, a Vickers Viscount 816, crashes into Mount Lalaboy, killing all 70 people on board.

Attempting to aid the Kree against an assault from the Phalanx during the Annihilation: Conquest storyline, Rider is badly wounded and crash lands on a sparsely populated Kree outpost.

Attempting to survive with her brother and the few people still around in her town, Manon's best companion, her brother, is tragically killed during a routine raid to retrieve weapon supplies.

Attempting to enlist for service during the Second World War, Maxwell was rejected on the grounds of his age before enlisting under an alias in Queensland ; his identity was discovered, and after a short period in a training position, he sought discharge.

Attempting to differentiate between ethnicities can be quite confusing, especially for nobles during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Do not reply .” Attempting to comply, Streaker is ambushed at the Morgran transfer point and pursued by opposing fleets of fanatical alien races — all of them wanting the cluster co-ordinates, and all of them desperate to prevent their enemies from getting them.

Attempting to join all the Moroccan forces to form the nucleus of a liberation movement Moroccan prior to a vast movement of decolonization, Abdelkrim asked the sultan Moulay Youssef to join his cause.

Attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the district attorney " to bring attention to the unscrupulous means by which government and Anglo settlers had usurped Hispanic land grant properties ", an armed struggle in the courthouse ensued resulting in Tijerina and his group fleeing to the south with two prisoners as hostages.

Attempting to land on the heart-shaped mesa in 1937, Angel crashed his small Flamingo plane on top of Auyantepui and was forced to hike down the gradually sloping backside, a trip that took him and his crew 11 days to complete.

* November 22 – Attempting to land at San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County, California, a Douglas DC-8-62 operating as Japan Airlines Flight 2 unintentionally lands in San Francisco Bay short of the runway.

* October 26 – Attempting to land in heavy rain and high winds, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5398, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, overruns the end of the runway at Fuzhou Changle International Airport in Fujian, China, and crashes, killing two of the 80 people on board.

* Attempting to re-take the former territories would mean unavoidable war with the much stronger U. S.

Attempting a political comeback in 1980, Lindsay made a long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator from New York, and finished third.

Attempting to minimize the public outcry, in 2005 the U. S. Embassy announced the establishment of a memorial commemorating the life and work of Teo Peter.

Attempting to lure Drummond from his defences, Izard sent a brigade of about 1, 200 men, consisting of the 5th, 14th, 15th and 16th U. S. Infantry with some detachments of riflemen and U. S. Dragoons under Brigadier General Daniel Bissell, to capture a British supply depot at Cooks Mills on Lyon's Creek in Crowland township.

Attempting to save himself after a disastrous Persian-sponsored expedition in 499 BC, Aristagoras chose to declare Miletus a democracy.

Attempting to decide is further confused because Hermóðr also seems to be sometimes the name of a god and sometimes the name of a hero.

Attempting to resolve the issue, in 1994, the IUPAC proposed the name joliotium ( Jl ), after the French physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, which was originally proposed by Soviet team for element 102, later named nobelium.

* 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

Attempting to avenge the assault on his wife, Frank and the Ku Klux Klan raid the shanty town whereupon Frank is shot dead.

Attempting to define an " author " of the joke hence becomes impossible, and it becomes a publicly owned resource, simply because no one could validly claim legitimate ownership.

Attempting to arrest the prophet for his bold words of defiance, Jeroboam's hand was " dried up ," and the altar before which he stood was rent asunder.

* 1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.

Attempting to contain spreading Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, Truman asked Congress to restore a peacetime military draft and to swiftly pass the Economic Cooperation Act, the name given to the Marshall Plan.

Attempting to steal pretzels, they fall into a vat of dough.

Attempting to fit the data too carefully leads to overfitting.

Attempting to crack passwords by trying as many possibilities as time and money permit is a brute force attack.

Attempting to defeat the Shah once and for all, Suleiman embarked upon a second campaign in 1548 – 1549.

Attempting to develop a realistic personality, the Doctor not only manufactured a holographic family, he had an increasing number of other " human " experiences.

Attempting to remedy this, Bethany K. Dumas and Jonathan Lighter argue that an expression should be considered " true slang " if it meets at least two of the following criteria:

Attempting to prevent schizophrenia in the prodrome phase is of uncertain benefit and therefore as of 2009 is not recommended.

Attempting to access a unit larger than a byte at an unaligned address can cause a bus error.

Attempting to repeat their earlier successes, the Whigs nominated popular General Winfield Scott, who lost decisively to the Democrats ' Franklin Pierce.

Attempting to capitalize on the possibility that the text of the United States Code can differ from the United States Statutes at Large, Bancroft-Whitney for many years published a series of volumes known as United States Code Service ( USCS ), which used the actual text of the United States Statutes at Large.

Attempting to rein in the escalating cost of the project, Hughes began questioning Utzon's capability, his designs, schedules and cost estimates, refusing to pay running costs.

Attempting to interpret the likelihood of a hypothesis given observed evidence as the probability of the hypothesis is a common error, with potentially disastrous real-world consequences in medicine, engineering or jurisprudence.

* November 11 – The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius a public enemy and Licinius is proclaimed Augustus, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.

When Taraki was ousted, Amin promised " from now on there will be no one-man government ..." Attempting to pacify the population, he released a list of some 18, 000 people who had been executed and blamed the executions on Taraki.

Attempting to reconcile the conflicting results, the Cahill team suggested that the high concentrations found by McCrone were due to a combination of contamination from modern dust, and poor sample selection ( i. e. choosing contaminant particles like those in the split ); however, they also chose not to publish or publicise Möller's loose particle study.