Attempts to conquer Prussian land began in 997, when Bolesław I Chrobry, at the urging of the Pope, sent a contingent of soldiers and a missionary ( Adalbert of Prague ) to the pagan Prussians on a crusade of conquest and conversion.

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.

* 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 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 by Maria Theresa to regain the crown land in the Second Silesian War ( 1744 – 1745 ) failed and she ultimately had to relinquish her claims by the Treaty of Dresden.

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 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 to build one immediately next to it were strongly opposed by the Epsom Grandstand Association and eventually land was purchased half a mile from the course.

Attempts to relieve the city from the land also failed, and after the Battle of Liaoyang in late August, the Russians retreated to Mukden ( Shenyang ).

Attempts to improve navigation by the use of snagpullers often resulted in crews ' clearing large trees 100 to back from the banks.

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

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 to expand the textile industry in Opelika continued for the next three decades, and in 1925 city officials were able to use a $ 62, 500 bribe to induce the executives of the Pepperell Manufacturing Co. ( now WestPoint International ) to construct a large mill just outside of the Opelika city limits.

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

Attempts to reduce wave drag can be seen on all high-speed aircraft ; most notable is the use of swept wings, but another common form is a wasp-waist fuselage as a side effect of the Whitcomb area rule.

Attempts to use them in aircraft failed as the weight severely limited both speed and altitude and it was incapable of making a successful interception.

Attempts to manufacture guncotton for military use failed at first because the factories were prone to explode and, above all else, the burning speed of straight guncotton was always too high.

Attempts were made by companies such as Sentinel to adapt the vertical boilers from their steam powered road vehicles for use in shunting locomotives, in order to compete with the relatively new diesel shunters.

Attempts by Dudley and Randolph to introduce the Church of England were largely unsuccessful due to a lack of funding, but were also hampered by the perceived political danger of imposing on the existing churches for their use.

Attempts by Dudley and Randolph to introduce the Church of England were largely unsuccessful due to a lack of funding, but were also hampered by the perceived political danger of imposing on the existing churches for their use.

Attempts to improve the fuel efficiency of automatic transmissions include the use of torque converters which lock up beyond a certain speed, or in the higher gear ratios, eliminating power loss, and overdrive gears which automatically actuate above certain speeds ; in older transmissions both technologies could sometimes become intrusive, when conditions are such that they repeatedly cut in and out as speed and such load factors as grade or wind vary slightly.

Attempts have been made to use multiple seismic sources at the same time in order to increase survey efficiency and a successul example of this technique is Independent Simultaneous Sweeping ( ISS ).

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 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 to automate the manufacturing process were never entirely successful, leading to the continued use of hand-made balls.

Attempts to engineer a new society via methods for doing so such as those proposed by B. F. Skinner ( 1949 ), and others with scientifically informed and inspired creators such as the early Israeli Kibbutzim and others on a small scale are known but in practice communist states of the 20th century did not and do not use scientific methods in a substantive way for this purpose.

Attempts have been made to increase the capacity of railways by making tracks cross in a grade-separated manner, as opposed to the traditional use of flat crossings to change tracks.

Attempts at weed control by herbicidal use, to the neglect of other methods, may have led to a proliferation of this species in some environments.

Attempts by grassroots activists and anarchists to use alternative media to spread information not available by mainstream news are also called media activism, as are certain forms of politically motivated hacking and net-based campaigns.

Attempts to use fuel injection brought no performance increase.

Attempts to formalize the principles of the empirical sciences, use an interpretation to model reality, in the same way logicians axiomatize the principles of logic.

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 legislate against acts of religious intolerance amongst citizens frequently come up against issues regarding the freedom of speech ; whilst in France being convicted of incitement to religious hatred can carry a maximum of 18 months in prison.

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 at censorship always involve and reveal such complex and multiple individual reactions.

Attempts were undertaken to prevent the former from herding their flocks in agricultural lands, such as the building of a wall known as the " Repeller of the Amorites " between the Tigris and Euphrates under the Ur III ruler Shu-Sin.

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 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 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 were made by CPC to take cities such as Nanchang, Changsha, Shantou, and Guangzhou.

Attempts were made to raise extra funds but other major investors, such as William Houston, were reluctant to invest as the canal already linked his own coal and iron mines, around Johnstone, to Glasgow and Paisley.

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

Attempts of formal treatment of mathematics had started with Leibniz and Lambert ( 1728 – 1777 ), and continued with works by algebraists such as George Peacock ( 1791 – 1858 ).

Attempts were made to minimise end-to-end journey times for a small number of powerful lightweight trains that could be marketed as glamorous premium crack expresses, especially between London and Glasgow, such as the 1937-39 Coronation Scot, hauled by streamlined Princess Coronation Class locomotives, which made the journey in 6 hours 30 minutes, making it competitive with the rival East Coast Flying Scotsman.

Attempts to track down such evaders were called slacker raids.

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.

* Formal verification, also model checking: Attempts to prove, by mathematical methods, that the system has certain desired properties, and that certain undesired effects ( such as deadlock ) cannot occur.

Attempts to join two men or two women in ' marriage ' constitute a radical redefinition and falsification of the institution, and FRC supports state and federal constitutional amendments to prevent such redefinition by courts or legislatures.

Attempts at using normal telephony networks to transmit slow-scan video, such as the first systems developed by AT & T, first researched in the 1950s, failed mostly due to the poor picture quality and the lack of efficient video compression techniques.

Attempts to give them clothing would often banish them forever, though whether they take offense to such gifts or are simply too proud to work in new clothes differs from teller to teller.

Attempts have been made to ' skin ' the system with a more user-friendly interface, called TOPS 2000 ; in addition, there are other parallel systems now, such as TRUST and Genius, but none has yet supplanted the TOPS system.

" Attempts by numerous authors to sub-group culture-bound syndromes place koro into different classes according to the system of classification, such as the group of " specific culture-imposed nosophobia " ( classification with cardinal sign ), " the genital retraction taxon " ( classification with common factors between syndromes ), and the group with " culture-related beliefs as causes for the occurrence " ( classification according to how the syndromes might be affected by cultural factors ).

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 deduce such traits as whether a deposit is marine or non-marine have been made, but shown to be unreliable.

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.

Attempts to track down such evaders were called " slacker raids.

Attempts have been made by ethnomusicologists and dance ethnologists to develop specific notation systems for such purposes.