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 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 by the Government of Romano Prodi in 2007 to introduce legislation failed after members of the governing coalition threatened division in opposition to the proposals.

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

Attempts to deal with the dislocations of the Great Depression in Ontario focused on the " sweatshop crisis " that came to dominate political and social discourse after 1934.

Attempts to deal the midfielder to Toronto FC, Colorado Rapids, FC Dallas, and Columbus Crew were all shot down by Guevara.

Attempts by McAvoy to strike a deal to give back his share of the money in exchange for a cut in his sentence failed as by then the money had vanished.

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 to mollify Justin II with tributes failed, and as a result the Byzantines kept themselves neutral if not outright supportive of the Avars.

Attempts to find classical or Late Latin influence or analogue in Beowulf are almost exclusively linked with Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid.

Attempts have been made to organize the entire book of Daniel with a chiastic structure despite the major break between Daniel 6 and 7, even though there are parallel themes across that break.

Attempts have been made to connect both " Omanus " and " Haman " with the Zoroastrian term Vohu Mana ; however this denotes the principle of " Good Thoughts " and is not the name of a deity.

Attempts to generalize his method to functions with more than two variables failed because of the enormous difficulty of the calculations involved.

Attempts to codify customary international law picked up momentum after the Second World War with the formation of the International Law Commission ( ILC ), under the aegis of the United Nations.

Attempts to commercialize the fruit have been met with limited success, although the fruit can occasionally be found in stores.

Attempts to gain control of or internationalize permanently the Ruhr area ( see International Authority for the Ruhr ) were abandoned in 1951 with the German agreement to pool its coal and steel resources ( see European Coal and Steel Community ) in return for full political control of the Ruhr.

Attempts by Switzerland's small Nazi party to cause an Anschluss with Germany failed miserably, largely due to Switzerland's multicultural heritage, strong sense of national identity, and long tradition of direct democracy and civil liberties.

Attempts to draw a confession that she had betrayed her dancer husband and had collaborated with the Nazis led to the use of a device employing a death mask of the dead patriot, which literally frightens her to death.

Attempts to include North Korea in the games were unsuccessful, and it boycotted along with six other countries, but with 160 nations participating, it had the highest attendance of any Olympics to date.

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.

* Regression – Attempts to find a function which models the data with the least error.

Attempts by the German infantry to advance further were stopped by British artillery fire with heavy losses.

Attempts to eliminate hedgehogs from bird colonies on the Scottish islands of North Uist and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides were met with international outrage.

Attempts to interfere with the binding of HIV with the CD4 receptor have failed to stop HIV from infecting helper T cells, but research continues on trying to interfere with the binding of HIV to the CCR5 receptor in hopes that it will be more effective.

Attempts to write Māori words using the Latin script began with Captain James Cook and other early explorers, with varying degrees of success.