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 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 have been made to evade the doctrine by implying trusts ( with varying success ), constructing the Law of Property Act 1925 s. 56 ( 1 ) to read the words " other property " as including contractual rights, and applying the concept of restrictive covenants to property other than real property ( without success ).

Attempts by several MEPs to disrupt the work of the Parliament caused sufficient annoyance for a majority of Members to endorse a rule change giving the Speaker / President the discretion to limit the use of filibustering procedures where he " is convinced that these are manifestly intended to cause, and will result in, a prolonged and serious obstruction of the procedures of the House or the rights of other Members " ( Rule 20, para 1 ).

Attempts by other landowners to establish the same rights as the Gells were largely unsuccessful.

Attempts to secure a negotiated settlement failed, and other disputes over lands and rights escalated the dispute.

Attempts to restore royal rights over the forests were not received well by the Saxon freedmen, and efforts to extend the crownlands in general as well as the increased demands laid upon the fisc were opposed.

Attempted rape under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 is a ' sexual offence ' within section 31 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991.

Attempts to persuade aboriginal tribesmen to give up hunting and adopt a sedentary farming lifestyle were unsuccessful because " for them, farming had two major drawbacks: first, according to the traditional sexual division of labor, it was women's work ; second, it was labor-intensive drudgery.

Attempts to use the data from these national surveys for international comparison have failed.

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 use victimisation surveys from different countries for international comparison had failed in the past.

Attempts have been made by international pharmaceutical and medical conferences to settle a basis on which an international pharmacopoeia could be prepared, but due to national jealousies and the attempt to include too many preparations nothing has yet been achieved.

Attempts on his own life lead him to believe two lovely females are " hit men " for an international crime syndicate.

" Attempts by pro-esteem advocates to encourage self-pride in students solely by reason of their uniqueness as human beings will fail if feelings of well-being are not accompanied by well-doing.

Attempts have been made with limited success in terms of human appreciation of the results.

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 escape from the black hole are hampered by the fact that the human crew have no access to the Challengers control room, where Android Surgeon-General Kraken has had his reasoning capacity damaged by the continuing attacks and is no longer responding to or obeying instructions.

Attempts to contact the dead date back to early human history, with mediumship gaining in popularity during the 19th century.

Attempts to communicate with the dead and other living human beings, aka spirits, have been documented back to early human history.

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 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 fusing the Chancery with the common law courts began in the 1850s, and finally succeeded with the 1873 and 1875 Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, which dissolved the Chancery and created a new unified High Court of Justice, with the Chancery Division – one of three divisions of the High Court – succeeding the Court of Chancery as an equitable body.

Attempts were made to test the constitutionality of the law ; however, the challenges had failed on technical grounds.

Attempts to harmonise copyright law in Europe ( and beyond ) can be dated to the signature of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works on 9 September 1886: all European Union Member States are signatories of the Berne Convention, and compliance with its dispositions is now obligatory before accession.

Attempts in the United States to make the law with respect to intestate succession uniform from state to state have met with limited success.

Attempts to collect the law firm's fees in Virginia and South Carolina returned no funds of the Christian Coalition at various banks.

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

Attempts to force Speedy to the base with oxalic acid, that can destroy it ( third law ) fails, it merely causes Speedy to change routes until he finds a new avoid-danger / follow-order equilibrium.

Attempts to pursue land claims and the use of religious ceremonies ( such as potlatches ) are no longer prohibited by law.

The sus law was repealed on 27 August 1981, on the advice of the 1979 Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure, when the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 received Royal Assent.

Attempts by some of these organizations to make use of an under-utilized and largely ignored copyright law to generate revenue from music distribution have proved fruitless.

Attempts are ongoing at harmonizing the different approaches internationally ( see below ); however, progress is slow due to the long history of patent law in developed nations.

Attempts have been made both by J. Gothofredus and Heineccius to restore the law, on the assumption that its provisions are reducible to the two general heads of a Lex Maritalis and Lex Caducaria.

In English law, an attempt is defined as ' doing an act which is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence ' according to the Criminal Attempts Act 1981.

Section 1 ( 2 ) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 applies the Act even though the facts are such that the commission of the offence is impossible so long as, under section 1 ( 3 ), the defendant believes that he is about to break the law and intends to commit the relevant full offence.

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 carry into effect the law of 1850 aroused much bitterness.

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 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 define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions – using the point of view of European music history or African music for example – but jazz critic Joachim Berendt argues that all such attempts are unsatisfactory.

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.