Attempts at censorship always involve and reveal such complex and multiple individual reactions.

Attempts at further expansion into the politically fractious world of Ancient Greece may have been inevitable.

Attempts at introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment in the 1980s since many quite personal questions were asked.

Attempts to test Darwin's remains at the Westminster Abbey by using modern PCR techniques were met with a refusal by the Abbey's curator.

Attempts at redeveloping the site were unsuccessful until its landmark status was established.

Attempts to conquer Prussian land began in 997, when Bolesław I Chrobry, at the urging of the Pope, sent a contingent of soldiers and a missionary ( Adalbert of Prague ) to the pagan Prussians on a crusade of conquest and conversion.

Attempts at such reconstructions typically rely on just such pairings of superficially similar words, but the connections proposed by these theories tend to be conjectural, failing to document significant patterns of linguistic change.

Attempts to extend the Standard Model or other quantum field theories by adding gravitons run into serious theoretical difficulties at high energies ( processes involving energies close to or above the Planck scale ) because of infinities arising due to quantum effects ( in technical terms, gravitation is nonrenormalizable ).

Attempts at reaching some sort of compromise between the conflicting parties meant the Bill still had not received the Royal Assent by the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.

Attempts by customers to circumvent the BSA, generally by structuring cash deposits to amounts lower than US $ 10, 000 by breaking them up and depositing them on different days or at different locations also violates the law.

Attempts at creating monorail alternatives to conventional railways have been made since the early part of the 19th century.

Attempts at analysing its manifold effects include the notion of a proper Printing Revolution and the creation of the Gutenberg Galaxy.

Attempts at breeding among the captive population also failed for the same reasons.

Attempts at union between the churches ( UPCUSA and PCUS ) were renewed in the 1970s, culminating in the merger of the two churches to form the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) on June 10, 1983.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

Attempts at revolt, such as that of Ambiorix in 54 BC, had secured only local support, but Vercingetorix, whose father, Celtillus, had been put to death by his own countrymen for seeking to rule all of Gaul, managed to unify the Gallic tribes against the Romans and adopted more current styles of warfare.

Attempts at transplanting feudal practices in the areas where they had previously been almost unknown did not pass without resistance.

Attempts were made by Louis Vauxcelles to claim that Cubism was dead, but these exhibitions, along with a well-organized Cubist show at the 1920 Salon des Indépendants and a revival of the Salon de la Section d ’ Or in the same year, demonstrated it was still alive.

Attempts at reform began in earnest in early 1992 after real GDP fell by more than 50 % from its peak in 1989.

With his Los Alamos colleague Robert Schrandt he published a report, " Some Elementary Attempts at Numerical Modeling of Problems Concerning Rates of Evolutionary Processes ", which applied some of his earlier ideas on branching processes to biological inheritance.

Attempts to halt the Allied advance often seemed fruitless as hurried counter-attacks and blocking positions were brushed aside and at times there seemed to be too few German units to hold anywhere.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

Attempts at peace culminated in the Arusha Accords.

Attempts to date to synthesize the element using fusion reactions at low excitation energy have met with failure, although there are reports that the fission of nuclei of unbinilium at very high excitation has been successfully measured, indicating a strong shell effect at Z = 120.

Attempts to curb the Douglases ' power took place in 1451, during the absence of the Earl of Douglas from Scotland, and culminated with the murder of Lord Douglas at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452.

Attempts to find other uses for the remaining military facilities took place through the 1980s with militia reserve units training at CFS Debert.

Attempts to bribe Sweyn not to attack using danegeld payments failed and he took the throne in 1013.

Attempts to force this bottleneck were futile, and the battalion took up defensive positions for the night.

Attempts to force concessions, either by blackmail ( as was the case in 1256, when the sons of Henry II the Pious took the intervention of the papal Curia, but to regain some lost by Boleslaw the Pious ) or bribery ( the exchange of Dańkow in 1262, promised by Henry III to Bolesław the Pious and Bolesław V the Chaste if they switched to the Bohemian side ) did not yield a positive result.

Attempts to place Laplacian eigenmaps on solid theoretical ground have met with some success, as under certain nonrestrictive assumptions, the graph Laplacian matrix has been shown to converge to the Laplace – Beltrami operator as the number of points goes to infinity.

" Attempts by numerous authors to sub-group culture-bound syndromes place koro into different classes according to the system of classification, such as the group of " specific culture-imposed nosophobia " ( classification with cardinal sign ), " the genital retraction taxon " ( classification with common factors between syndromes ), and the group with " culture-related beliefs as causes for the occurrence " ( classification according to how the syndromes might be affected by cultural factors ).

Attempts to quantitatively describe the degree of aridity of a place has often led to the development of aridity indexes.

Attempts were made from 1965 to 1968 by the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), in cooperation with the Indian Intelligence Bureau ( IB ), to place a nuclear-powered telemetry relay listening on the summit of Nanda Devi.

Attempts are made to place as many mutual " 1 " s ( the highest rating ) in rounds, with preference given to the teams with the best record.

Attempts are being made to place the basking shark in its entirety in a formalin solution.

Attempts to reclaim the area were made throughout history ; the most serious project taking place in 1907, but even then only the Hertogin Hedwige-polder was conquered from the sea.

Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).

Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in terrible storms.

Attempts of Sri Lankan noblemen to undermine the British power in 1818 during the Uva Rebellion were thwarted by Governor Robert Brownrigg.

Attempts to reacquire Mariner 5 during June, July, and early August 1968 yielded no spacecraft signal.

Attempts to reform this structure during the 18th century were mainly fruitless.

Attempts to revive the Buddhist Church started during World War II, and it was officially re-established in 1946.

Attempts to contact the lander during the next four months, based on the presumed antenna position, were unsuccessful.

Attempts to designate only the Hinomaru as the national flag by the DPJ and other parties during the vote of the bill were rejected by the Diet.

* Chile: Attempts at land reform began under the government of Jorge Alessandri in 1960, were accelerated during the government of Eduardo Frei Montalva ( 1964 – 1970 ), and reached its climax during the 1970-1973 presidency of Salvador Allende.

Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in storms.

Attempts to reform Hindu law by legislative processes commenced during British period.

Attempts to break up the hacienda system in the Philippines through land reform laws during the second half of the 1900s have not been successful especially the Hacienda Luisita that resorted to protests.

Attempts to attack the German aircraft industry during the summer and fall of 1943, beyond the range of escort fighters, resulted in critical losses of aircrew.

In the Senate, he was chairman of the Special Committee on Attempts to Influence Senators during the 84th Congress.

Attempts to run the blockade and resupply Malta proved to be costly and often ended in failure ; the two-pronged effort to resupply Malta during June 1942 — known as Operations Harpoon ( from Gibraltar ) and Vigorous ( from Alexandria, Egypt )— were unsuccessful, only two merchantmen from Harpoon and none from Vigorous reached Malta, while many others ( including the only tanker included in Harpoon ) were sunk, and the escorting warships also suffered heavy casualties.

Attempts to right this situation had begun during the reign of Sultan Selim III, from 1789 to 1807, but were continuously thwarted by the powerful Janissary corps.

* Attempts to reduce inherent project risk by breaking a project into smaller segments and providing more ease-of-change during the development process.

* Attempts to reduce inherent project risk by breaking a project into smaller segments and providing more ease-of-change during the development process.

Attempts were made to persuade the episcopate to open it during the Crimean War and again during the First World War.

Attempts to restrict the power of commanders to make knights would increase during the 16th century and by the end of Elizabeth I's reign, the practice had all but ceased.

Attempts were made during that time to ask the king to change his mind and allow an election, but influences in the court, such as Gabriel of Shiggar, and the king's wife Shirin ( who was under Gabriel's influence ) blocked the requests.