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 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 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 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 were made in the early 20th century to establish a resort community in the area, but these efforts met with only modest success.

* Attempts to transport large stones like those used in Stonehenge over short distances using only technology that would have been available at the time.

Attempts to specify a direct construction have only produced some conditional results.

Attempts to deduce the original flow of the Rubicon can be done only by studying written documents and other archaeological evidence such as Roman milestones, which indicate the distance between the ancient river and the nearest Roman towns.

Attempts to take up a collection for Huber's widow Clara only brought about more trouble and eventually led to Hans Leipelt's arrest and execution.

Attempts to contact them are met with radio silence ; indeed, their only response is to open fire with devastating results.

Attempts to establish a Räterepublik ( republican system of councillors ) in Austria resulted in developments different to those in Germany or Russia, as the Räte were able to establish themselves in only isolated, high-population density areas such as Vienna and the industrial areas of Upper Austria.

* Attempts to find cryptograms in the works of William Shakespeare, which tended to report results only for those passages of Shakespeare for which the proposed decoding algorithm produced an intelligible result.

A newspaper editorial from the Richmond News Leader opined that " Attempts to dismiss the reported sightings under the rationale as exhibited by Project Bluebook ( sic ) won ’ t solve the mystery … and serve only to heighten the suspicion that there ’ s something out there that the air force doesn't want us to know about ", while a Wichita-based UPI reporter noted that " Ordinary radar does not pick up planets and stars.

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 were made between 1890 and 1895 to bring many of these professors to the bar of the Assembly on charges of heresy, but these moves failed, with only minor warnings being issued.

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 were then made to have new documents issued from Belgium, but the authorities there would only do so if Nasseri presented himself in person.

Attempts to assert control over the Zaporozhian Cossacks included demands of having them fight in any of the tsar's wars, instead of only defending their own land against regional enemies as was agreed to in previous treaties.

Attempts are being made not only to quantify the greenness of a chemical process but also to factor in other variables such as chemical yield, the price of reaction components, safety in handling chemicals, hardware demands, energy profile and ease of product workup and purification.

Attempts to remedy this, with reforestation efforts and management of wild copal trees has only had limited success.

Attempts to beat the " competitive game ", such as compiling " bibles " of solutions to be passed from one generation to the next, often only worsen the situation.

Attempts to trace the meaning of the name are speculative, since its origin can only be conjectured.

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

Attempts by the EDBF to establish a cross-border European club league in recent years have not taken seed, and most events continue to be organised under the auspices of the national governing bodies.

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 were made in Japan by the Emperor Tenmu ( 673-86 ) to have a conscripted national army, but this did not come about and by the 10th century Japan instead relied on individual land owners to provide men for conflicts and wars.

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

Attempts were made at this time to launch Kennedy as a national personality.

Attempts to create sustainable freshwater systems have been seen on a national level in countries such as Australia and South Africa, and such commitment to the environment could set a model for the rest of the world.

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