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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.
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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 introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment in the 1980s since many quite personal questions were asked.
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 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 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 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 were made to play down the perceived threat to Britain, but once the German fleet reached the position of equalling the other second-rank navies, it became impossible to avoid mention of the one great fleet it was intended to challenge.
Attempts were made to establish a puppet Chinese government, under Nationalist defector Wang Ching-wei, but this also proved unsuccessful.
Attempts at union between the churches ( UPCUSA and PCUS ) were renewed in the 1970s, culminating in the merger of the two churches to form the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) on June 10, 1983.
Attempts of Sri Lankan noblemen to undermine the British power in 1818 during the Uva Rebellion were thwarted by Governor Robert Brownrigg.
Attempts to gain control of or internationalize permanently the Ruhr area ( see International Authority for the Ruhr ) were abandoned in 1951 with the German agreement to pool its coal and steel resources ( see European Coal and Steel Community ) in return for full political control of the Ruhr.
Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.
Attempts to include parts of these municipalities in the city of The Hague were highly controversial.
Attempts were made to enable X servers as real-time collaboration devices, much as Virtual Network Computing ( VNC ) would later allow a desktop to be shared.
Attempts to include North Korea in the games were unsuccessful, and it boycotted along with six other countries, but with 160 nations participating, it had the highest attendance of any Olympics to date.
Attempts were made by Louis Vauxcelles to claim that Cubism was dead, but these exhibitions, along with a well-organized Cubist show at the 1920 Salon des Indépendants and a revival of the Salon de la Section d ’ Or in the same year, demonstrated it was still alive.
Attempts were made to develop Anguilla into a plantation-based economy employing slaves transported from Africa, but the island's soil and climate were unfavourable and the plantations were largely unsuccessful.
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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 are occasionally made, e. g. by fashion designers, to promote the acceptance of skirts as everyday wear for men.
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 at creating monorail alternatives to conventional railways have been made since the early part of the 19th century.
Attempts have been made to explain scientifically poltergeist disturbances that have not been traced to fraud.
Attempts have been made to provide a more consistent nomenclature for subtypes of chronic sinusitis.
Attempts have been made to train zebras for riding, since they have better resistance than horses to African diseases.
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 were made in 1871 to eradicate the vegetation, because of concerns over the damage that was being caused to the masonry, but much of it has returned.
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Attempts at making themselves look fearsome is when their wings raise upwards from their sides and feathers bristle across the length of the body, or they may also rush forwards with a gaping beak.
Attempts by John I, Count of Armagnac to raise troops from his domains in the Rouergue also produced little.
Attempts were made to subordinate their activity, and raise the falling value of Academy of Arts-sanctioned works.
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