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

Attempts to find a local buyer were unsuccessful, with league commissioner Gary Bettman saying, " there doesn't seem to be anybody, in a serious fashion, who wants to own the franchise.

Attempts to find financial backing for the settlement were futile, and disease, death and desertion by the immigrant labourers led to the abandonment of the settlement towards the end of 1866.

* 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.

* Attempts to find cryptograms in the Bible, and the Quran Code.

Attempts were made to find a new husband for Sibylla.

Attempts to find other uses for the remaining military facilities took place through the 1980s with militia reserve units training at CFS Debert.

Attempts to lower accelerating voltages and find suitable phosphors that would work at lower power levels, as well as address the erosion problem through better materials, were unsuccessful.

Attempts to find a successor again failed in 2012, and the selection process was put on hold for the time being.

Attempts to find like-minded musicians in and around San Pedro became frustrating, and by 1982 Derrick began spending more time in Los Angeles, performing in various musical settings.

Attempts to find the gibberlings ' lairs have inevitably led back to subterranean passages, where the trail is eventually lost in the deepest rock-floored recesses of the caverns.

Attempts have been made to adopt classical voice type terms to other forms of singing but such attempts have been met with controversy.

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

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

Attempts failed to return the sphere of influence to the cultures of the Middle East with the crusades and the Latin Empire in Constantinople ( 1204-1261 ).

Attempts to influence social structure through education

Attempts to limit the influence of money on American political campaigns dates back to the 1860s.

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 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.

Compliance: Attempts to direct behavior of another person, and often, by implication, to influence attitudes or feelings.

Attempts have been made to develop a finitary analogue of the theory of varieties.

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 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 to produce evolutionary " family trees " give results that differ from traditional classes because several of those classes are not monophyletic.

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

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 to save a metal from becoming anodic are of two general types.

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.

O ' Rourke's best-received book is Parliament of Whores, subtitled A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U. S. Government, whose main argument, according to the author, " is that politics are boring ".

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 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 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 to connect Cumhall with Camulos, a Celtic god of war, are now largely rejected.

Attempts are being made to have service restored.

Attempts are made to improve public and staff attitudes.

" 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 are made to keep the combat as realistic as possible in a game setting.

Attempts at decipherment are generally thought to be unlikely to succeed unless more examples of the signs are found, as it is generally agreed that there is not enough context available for a meaningful analysis.

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 at anonymity are not always met with support from society.

Attempts to improve speed limit observance are usually by either education, enforcement or road engineering.

Attempts to reconstruct the original text are called critical editions.

Attempts are made to impress Dr Winter but they end disastrously.

Attempts at vandalism of the flagstaff are often an objective of these protests, carrying on a tradition that dates from the 19th century when Hone Heke chopped down the British flagstaff in nearby Russell.