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

Attempts to work out the evolutionary relationships of the chordates have produced several hypotheses.

Attempts to achieve scalar and better performance have resulted in a variety of design methodologies that cause the CPU to behave less linearly and more in parallel.

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 remove unauthentic sections from Philippians have failed.

Attempts to trace the word back to a Latin root have been pronounced " phonologically impossible " or " inadmissable ".

Attempts have been made to have the official provincial name — still Civic Holiday — amended, but none have succeeded.

Attempts to portray Arthur as a genuine historical figure of c. 500 AD, stripping away the " romance ", have also emerged.

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

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

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

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 reconcile Germany and Russia did not have lasting effect: the Three Emperors ' League was re-established in 1881, but quickly fell apart ( the end of the Russian-Austrian-Prussian solidarity which had existed in various forms since 1813 ).

Attempts have been made to explain scientifically poltergeist disturbances that have not been traced to fraud.

Attempts either to dig or drown them out of their holes have generally proved unsuccessful.

Attempts have been made to group these families in higher orders.

Attempts to introduce the Arctic Hare and the muskox have both failed.

Attempts have been made to provide a more consistent nomenclature for subtypes of chronic sinusitis.

Attempts had been made to restore the lighthouse thirty years prior, but to no avail.

Attempts to create a market there to draw off some of the frenetic commercial activity in the centre of the city had not been successful.

Attempts to patent turmeric have been defeated.

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 have been made to train zebras for riding, since they have better resistance than horses to African diseases.

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

Attempts have been made to use the concepts of Turing machine or computable function to fill this gap, leading to the claim that only questions regarding the behavior of finite algorithms are meaningful and should be investigated in mathematics.

Attempts to make English spelling behave phonetically have given rise to various campaigns for spelling reform ; none have been generally accepted.

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

Attempts were made as early 1804 to resolve the status of the state line.

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 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 were made to play down the perceived threat to Britain, but once the German fleet reached the position of equalling the other second-rank navies, it became impossible to avoid mention of the one great fleet it was intended to challenge.

Attempts were made to establish a puppet Chinese government, under Nationalist defector Wang Ching-wei, but this also proved unsuccessful.

Attempts were made to enable X servers as real-time collaboration devices, much as Virtual Network Computing ( VNC ) would later allow a desktop to be shared.

Attempts were made to remedy this situation by creating new laws.

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 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 were made to reintroduce legal bans, but the Supreme Court ruled that bans on teaching evolutionary biology are unconstitutional as they violate the establishment clause of the US constitution, which forbids the government from advancing a particular religion.

Attempts were made in 1871 to eradicate the vegetation, because of concerns over the damage that was being caused to the masonry, but much of it has returned.

Attempts were also made to improve the provision of nursery education.

Attempts were also made to incorpoarate the Samaritans, following takeover of Samaria.