Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes.

Attempts by the Presbyterians led by Richard Baxter to gain approval for an alternative service book failed.

Attempts are occasionally made, e. g. by fashion designers, to promote the acceptance of skirts as everyday wear for men.

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 to popularise pilegesh as a form of premarital, non-marital and extramarital relationships ( which, according to the perspective of the enacting person / s, is permitted by Jewish religious law ) have been initiated.

Attempts to improve navigation by the use of snagpullers often resulted in crews ' clearing large trees 100 to back from the banks.

Attempts by the guest operating system to access the hardware are routed to the virtual device driver in the host operating system as e. g. function calls.

Attempts were made by both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to establish " autarky " ( self-sufficiency ) through significant economic planning, but neither achieved economic self-sufficiency.

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 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 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 to introduce large-scale cooperative farming were frustrated by landowning rural elites, who formed the core of the powerful right-wing of the Congress and had considerable political support in opposing the efforts of Nehru.

Attempts by an employer, often with the help of outside agencies, to prevent union membership amongst their staff is known as union busting.

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 by the physics community to eliminate four of the theories, leaving only one string theory, have not been successful.

Attempts by owners to compete for the few remaining clients on a bypassed road by lowering prices typically only worsened the decline by leaving no funds to invest in improving or properly maintaining the property ; accepting clients who would have been formerly turned away also led to problems in cities.

Attempts to revive the species by breeding the surviving captive birds were not successful.

Attempts to keep Right Whale Dolphins in aquaria have all ended in failure and death.

Attempts have been made to keep the Striped Dolphin in captivity.

Attempts to obtain a retired Space Shuttle were unsuccessful.

Attempts by the UK Government to obtain a similar exemption were also stymied.

Attempts by the Great Council to obtain a copy of the bill for study and discussion had come to nothing, he said.

Attempts by the brewery to obtain planning permission to demolish the pub and erect housing have been rejected by the local council.

Attempts to obtain a Boeing 737-200 for display in New Zealand have not been successful.

Attempts are made to improve public and staff attitudes.

# Attempts at an alter-globalization movement to reform policies and processes of the WTO include: " alternative principles of public accountability, the rights of people and the protection of the environment " through the theoretical framework of Robert Cox.

Attempts to control the growth in public expenditures, have however, been less successful than originally hoped by the party.

Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures.

Attempts were made to protect the remaining bush as a public reserve through discussions with the family as well as representation to the Minister of Lands.

Attempts have been made, both successfully and unsuccessfully, to ban the book in schools, public libraries, and prisons, though these attempts are somewhat rare.

" Attempts to ban the book from schools and public libraries have been made in various places around the world, and bans or limitations on the book in prisons have been repeatedly challenged in court.

Attempts to save representative examples on both public and private lands are on-going.

Attempts were made to cast Madonna, in a role eventually played by Milla Jovovich and many of the production details and difficulties were explained to the public on an unusually frank official website.

Attempts to catalogue and circulate single-issue comics can pose difficult problems and the durability of the trade paperback format is an important consideration for longevity and collection development in public and school libraries.

Attempts to insert theories of intelligent design into public school science curricula fits in with the intelligent design movement's social aims, via the overturning of Western secularism as detailed in the Wedge strategy.

Attempts by online art retailers to sell fine photography to the general public alongside prints of paintings have had mixed results, with strong sales coming only from the traditional " big names " of photography such as Ansel Adams.

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

Attempts to form right-of-center and left-wing governments failed ; 7 weeks after the election, a broad but fractious coalition government of six of the nine parties was voted into office under Prime Minister Andris Šķēle, a nonpartisan businessman.

Attempts were made to develop Anguilla into a plantation-based economy employing slaves transported from Africa, but the island's soil and climate were unfavourable and the plantations were largely unsuccessful.

Attempts to introduce the European Robin into Australia and New Zealand in the latter part of the 19th century were unsuccessful.

* 1955 — Attempts to detach the village and annex into Hamilton continued.

Attempts have been made to bring it into more general use, but without success ; and it is only in particular circumstances that navigation, with the aid either of locks or inclined planes to surmount the elevations, will not present a more convenient medium for an extended trade.

Attempts to clean the ear canals through the removal of earwax can actually reduce ear canal cleanliness by pushing debris and foreign material into the ear that the natural movement of ear wax out of the ear would have removed.

Attempts to get the studio's characters into other media proved disappointing.

Attempts to bring Calvinism into the Orthodox Church were rejected, and Cyril's actions and motivations remain a matter of debate among the Orthodox.

Attempts to turn the screenplay into a novel were equally unsuccessful.

Attempts by the militia to deal with the Tuhoe were largely unsuccessful because they could always retreat into the large rugged mountainous area of the Urewera Ranges.

Attempts to include Inner Mongolia into the new state failed for various reasons, including the military weakness of the Inner Mongols to achieve their independence, the lack of Russian assistance to them ( Russia was bound in Inner Mongolian affairs by secret treaties with Japan ), and the lack of support from a part Inner Mongolian nobles and the higher clergy.

Attempts had been made to introduce dromedaries into the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil ; some were imported to the western United States in the 1850s and some to Namibia in the early 1900s, but today they exist in none of these areas.

" 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 at renovation took place during the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, when the European tendencies penetrated into the country, reflected in numerous important buildings of Buenos Aires, such as the Santa Felicitam Church, by Ernesto Bunge ; the Central Post Office and Palace of Justice, by Norbert Maillart ; and the National Congress and the Colón Opera House, by Vittorio Meano.

Attempts have been made to combine aspects of the Kharkiv and Kyiv bandura into a unified instrument.

Attempts to make St Edmund's House into a fully-fledged constituent college were made at various times after foundation, but were met by continuing hostility by the predominantly Protestant body of Cambridge MAs, graduates of the University who had the right to vote in the Senate House.

Attempts by the state to fix the problem included introducing tilapia fish into the pool and installing an ozone treatment system.

Attempts to shift the league towards a summer season went back into the early 1980s, but only came to pass for the 1989 / 90 season.

* 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 are underway by the state to reintroduce the once-prevalent American shad, which went into decline largely because of dams on the river.

Attempts by the Vatican to get ICAB back into the Roman Catholic Church have failed.