Attempting to avoid financial losses during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Stearns cluster of companies sold vast quantities of land to the U. S. Government, becoming part of what was to become the Cumberland National Forest in 1937.

Attempting to get consensus in the body has thus become more difficult leading to the number of its special reports per year shrinking from fifteen to six between 2003 and 2005 despite its staff growing by 200 over the same period.

Attempting to point the fraternity in the right direction, Ms. Mattie J. Bayard ( née Orr ) took a volume of Robert Browning's poems from a shelf, turned to A Death in the Desert, reading what would become the motto.

* 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 pressure fry using a first generation pressure cooker can be very dangerous.

Attempting to express the " language of the common man ", Wordsworth and his fellow Romantic poets focused on employing poetic language for a wider audience, countering the mimetic, tightly constrained Neo-Classic poems ( although it's important to note that the poet wrote first and foremost for his / her own creative, expression ).

Attempting to tell life from the point of view of women in a changing world, the show stirred controversy when the 90-minute opener had the first " nude " scene on American network television ( the nudity was only implied, as both of the bodies were under bedsheets ) between Larry Kirby and his mistress, Sandra.

Attempting to get half way on the first push, they were foiled by the long hand sized and larger cracks.

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 form stable parties that could win seats in both areas was a daunting task and led to political deadlock in the Province of Canada before Confederation.

Attempting to win another regional Heavyweight title, Savarese fought Leo Nolan, for the IBA's vacant Americas Heavyweight title, but he lost to Nolan by a twelve round unanimous decision on May 7, 2004.

Attempting to calm possible panicked listeners, Paar announced, " The world is not coming to an end.

Attempting to change the world is like trying to straighten the curly tail of a dog.

Attempting to rationalize Superman's powers, it was under Weisinger's watch that the " concept that in a world circling a yellow sun opposed to Krypton's red sun his powers are multiplied " came to be introduced to the Superman mythology.

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.

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.

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 use their family connections to achieve what open politics hadn't, Edward sent his brother Edmund Crouchback ( who was both Philip's cousin and step-father-in-law ) to come to an agreement with the French Royal family that would avert war.

Attempting to following him, Samuel Argall, an English explorer, was blown off course in 1610 and landed in a strange bay that he named after the Governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr.

Attempting to assault Fort Royal, his fleet was becalmed, allowing the greatly outnumbered French defenders time to solidify their defenses.

Attempting to break Ben out of prison, Ben nevertheless convinced him that he had to accept responsibility for his actions, prompting Peter to return to school and form a relationship with Mary Jane after Anna Watson took him in, culminating in Ben helping Peter in his crime-fighting activities after he was released from prison.

Attempting to reach Egypt on foot, Absalom Feinberg was killed and Yosef Lishansky was wounded but managed to reach British lines.

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.

Attempting to gain complete control, he sought to exile his rival Abd el-Rahman in 1762 when the latter was conducting the caravan of Mecca, but was instead sentenced to exile at Gaza ; Ali Bey started for that city, but on the third day made to the Hijaz where he was joined by a number of his followers, and from there travelled to Girga where he spent the next two years, until his supporters in Cairo effected his recall.

Attempting to escape his destiny, the young Kang stole his future self's advanced armor and travelled back to the past, forming the Young Avengers based on a security protocol acquired from the databanks of the now-dead Vision when he was unable to contact the now-disassembled Avengers to help him stop Kang.

Attempting to capitalize on the success of the previous single, " Hallo Hallo " was released with special remixes just for the Spanish market.

Attempting to turn a corner in his declining career, Ashby stopped using drugs, trimmed his hair and beard, and began to frequent Hollywood parties wearing a navy blue blazer so as to suggest that he was once again " respectable ".

Attempting to leverage this arrangement as much as possible, he was even featured on a baseball card showing him as a third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays, although the closest he came to a professional baseball career was taking batting practice one day with the Blue Jays.

Attempting to flee from the clones with Doomsday, the Superman Family discover that their ship is now on course for Earth with the potential to trigger an extinction-level-event if it strikes, only for their attempt to divert the ship being interrupted by a being called ' Doomslayer ', resembling a cyborg version of Doomsday-later revealed to be a Doomsday who was tossed down an infinite tube that gave it time to evolve -, who effortlessly tears Eradicator apart and proclaims that Earth must die for the future.

Attempting to find work in Montreal, he was tailed from jobsite to jobsite by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), who pointed out to employers and workmates that he was a convicted spy.

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 flee South Carolina by plane, she was badly wounded when the group was shot down.

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

Attempting to make his second straight trip to the gold medal game, Bure and the Russians knocked out the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals 1-0, but lost in the semi-finals to the United States by 3 – 2.

Attempting to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario, with fellow tramp Three-fingered Jack, he lost his footing and his right foot was crushed under the wheels of the train.

Attempting to track Sakai down by cell phone, the police reported that her cell phone lost signal within the area of Yamanashi Prefecture, about 60 miles ( 100 kilometers ) west of Tokyo.

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

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.

Attempting to increase the angle of attack at 1g by moving the control column back normally causes the aircraft to climb.

Attempting to debug a race condition by adding debugging code to the application is likely to change the speed of one thread in relation to another and could cause the problem to disappear.

Attempting to flee the city, Brent and Nova are captured by gorillas.

Attempting to positively bias the anode within this time causes the thyristor to be self-triggered by the remaining charge carriers ( holes and electrons ) that have not yet recombined.

* Attempting to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip by supporting and participating in initiatives to send vessels through the naval blockade to Gaza.

Attempting to secure his position by positing himself as the only surviving heir of Osman, Mustafa ordered both Selim and his brother Mahmud murdered at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople.

Attempting to read the scrolls also proves contemptuous as the scrolls are protected by several layers of magical safeguards, this includes the blinding light that emanates from the scroll's text.

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.

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 finish off Project 314, begun by Walsh, Adam has his workers manufacturing more creatures like himself ; part demon, human, and machine combined.

Attempting to calm Davey down, Whitey takes him to the mall, where they meet single mom Jennifer Friedman ( Jackie Titone, singing voice by Alison Krauss ), Davey's childhood girlfriend, and her son, Benjamin ( Austin Stout ).

Attempting to run, Fouchet is shot in the leg by Lowrey.

Attempting to locate another opportunity to stay in the NFL, Palmer worked out with the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders and was temporarily signed by the San Francisco 49ers on November 1, 2005 as injuries plagued their quarterbacks Alex Smith and Ken Dorsey.