Attempts to supply the battalion by air drop were unsuccessful.

Attempts to mine the area were largely unsuccessful, but the region housed one of the state's earliest water-powered mills, and a weir erected in the early 1880s provided for part of the City of Burnside's water supply.

Attempts were made to perturb all Ottomans ' radio communications to isolate and demoralize the besieged.

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

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 by German air fleets to interdict British shipping in the English Channel were met with a significance response from the RAF, and many air battles ensued over the Channel.

Attempts to demonstrate the existence of a " brown note " using sound waves transmitted through air, have failed.

Attempts of the flight captain Kim Chang Ky to communicate with the intercepting pilot at the frequency 121. 5 were recorded by the tower coordinating air traffic in Rovaniemi.

Attempts to modify entries that do not exist will fail.

Attempts to translate these sentences in an emotivist framework seem to fail ( e. g. " She does not realize, ' Boo on eating meat !'").

" 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 to magnetize smaller areas would fail.

Attempts to in some sense isolate the finite VP fail, but the same attempts with the non-finite VP succeed.

Attempts at breathing deeply fail, and give the individual a sense of resistance — which the threat-activated vigilance system interprets as someone sitting on their chest, suffocating them.

Attempts to order Speedy to return ( Second Law ) fail, as the conflicted positronic brain cannot accept new orders.

** Attempts to teach Jesus, which fail, with Jesus doing the teaching

Attempts to reproduce the event fail with others present.

Attempts to evade the missiles fail, and Arthur uses the ship's Infinite Improbability Drive, which ends up turning the missiles into a very surprised looking whale and a bowl of petunias.

Attempts by a bevy of beauties to seduce Bond fail, but Mimi / Lady Fiona becomes so impressed with Bond that she changes loyalties and helps Bond to foil the plot against him.

Attempts to launch the time capsule fail.

Attempts by the Red Army to re-establish communication with the remnants of the 3rd Tank Army continued, although in vain.

Attempts to counter data remanence by overwriting may not be successful in such situations, as data remnants may persist in such nominally inaccessible areas.

Attempts to rescue the trapped miners were repeatedly delayed due to high levels of methane gas until a second explosion on the 24th November was believed to dash all hope of survival for the miners.

Attempts to subject them by the royal army was unsuccessful, because the Maroons had learned to master the South American jungles.

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 unload arms and ammunition from MV Swat were a partial failure during March 20-25th, as civilian protestors blocked any attempt to take the arms to the cantonment and many were shot by the army.