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

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.

Attempts by the conservative Liberal-Reform coalition to deal with the situation with spending cuts and relief work were ineffective and unpopular.

* 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.

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.

Other observers are skeptical: Attempts to bring about democratic change in Cuba with the aid of US financing have long been criticized by pundits as " Dead on Arrival " when the initiatives reach Cuba, as there is widespread popular opposition in Cuba to US intervention in Cuban politics ( as such, dissidents receiving money from US sources, especially from the CIA, are immediately discredited in Cuban politics ).

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

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 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.

* 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 to reinstate him after the Reform Bill had passed were not successful, as Lord Grey and Lord Howe could not come to an agreement as to how independent Howe could be of the government.

Attempts by the apartheid government to force Sotho speakers to relocate to designated homelands had little effect on human settlement patterns, and large numbers of workers continued to leave the traditional areas of Black settlement throughout the last century.

Attempts to get back the full Park label started in 2002, leading to a new chart being proposed in 2006 ; accepted by the local authorities, it was rejected in late 2008 by the government due to a perceived " juridical fragility ".

* Attempts to discredit Martin Luther King, Jr. by placing publications portraying him as an " Uncle Tom " who was secretly receiving government subsidies.

Attempts to contact the U. S. government in order to return were rebuffed consistently.

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 British colonial government to crack down on the celebration of Carnival sparked the Canboulay Riots in 1881 and 1884.

Attempts to bring him back into government service were blocked by factional politics.

Attempts by UNTSO to limit Israeli agricultural activities on account of Arab ownership of land according to the cadastral map of the area failed as Israel refused to accept any limitation to its civilian activities anywhere in the DMZ.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.