Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.

Early attempts to find a jujutsu teacher who was willing to take him on met with little success.

Early attempts to quantitatively describe the electromagnetic force were made in the mid-18th century.

Early attempts to create a MultiMate Data Manager and List Manager in-house never reached the market.

Early experiments were inconclusive, but with the creation of a moose farm at Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve in 1949 a small-scale moose domestication program was started, involving attempts at selective breeding of animals based on their behavioural characteristics.

Early attempts to prove Fermat's Last Theorem climaxed when Kummer introduced regular primes, primes satisfying a certain requirement concerning the failure of unique factorization in the ring consisting of expressions

Early Spartan attempts to break up the coalition failed, and the leadership of the Spartan king Agis was called into question.

Early attempts to merge quantum mechanics with special relativity involved the replacement of the Schrödinger equation with a covariant equation such as the Klein-Gordon equation or the Dirac equation.

Early attempts to reach this autonomy from the surface were made in the 18th century by the Englishman John Lethbridge, who invented and successfully built his own underwater diving machine in 1715.

Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion into a still drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are often depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.

Early attempts by the logical positivists grounded science in observation while non-science was non-observational and hence meaningless.

Early attempts to formulate laws in material terms were made by ancient philosophers, including Aristotle, but suffered both from lack of definitions and lack of accurate observations ( experimenting ), and hence had various misconceptions – such as the assumption that observed effects were due to intrinsic properties of objects, e. g. " heaviness ," " lightness ," " wetness ," etc.

Early in 2002, Blur recorded a song that would be played by European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander once it touched down ; however, attempts to locate the probe after it landed on Mars were fruitless.

Early attempts to define social capital focused on the degree to which social capital as a resource should be used for public good or for the benefit of individuals.

Early attempts to capture and explain software architecture of a system were imprecise and disorganized, often characterized by a set of box-and-line diagrams.

Early attempts at a scientific explanation of dowsing were based on the notion that the divining rod was physically affected by emanations from substances of interest.

Early attempts to get into the police force when he was a teenager were unsuccessful on account of his asthma, so when it had been cured, he could then pursue his ambition to become a professional police officer.

Early attempts were made to pass bridge bonds, as example, to build bridges across the Kiamichi River and Jack Fork Creek.

Early settlement attempts by the Dutch included Pavonia ( 1633 ), Vriessendael ( 1640 ) and Achter Col ( 1642 ) but the Native Americans repelled these settlements in Kieft's War ( 1643 – 1645 ) and the Peach Tree War ( 1655 – 1660 ).

Early attempts at extracting iron ore were tried at Old Airdrie on the banks of the Green River and at Buckner Furnace south of Greenville, Kentucky.

Early attempts to identify relationships between major groups were made in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such as Thomas Henry Huxley and E. Ray Lankester.

Early attempts at settlement included an English trading post in 1763, and in 1822 a plantation growing sugar cane and oranges was established by Jewish immigrant Moses Elias Levy.

Early Dutch explorers and traders discovered red ores in the area and attempted to mine them as early as 1750, but were unsuccessful in their mistaken attempts to extract copper from the ores.

Early attempts to extract lumber from the forests met little success due to the high cost of transportation.

Early attempts at molecular systematics were also termed as chemotaxonomy and made use of proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, and other molecules that were separated and characterized using techniques such as chromatography.

Early in the wars of the First Coalition, he saw victory at Neerwinden in 1793, before tasting defeat at Wattignies 1793 and Fleurus 1794.

Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.

Early Spanish successes threatened Paris, and even after the Spanish defeat at Rocroi, Spain remained a strong opponent.

Early had been dealt his most significant defeat, rendering his army almost incapable of future offensive action.

The force was next created by order of Ulysses S. Grant on August 7, 1864, in response to a raid by Jubal Early and his Confederate army of 15, 000 on Washington, D. C., and especially his defeat of Lew Wallace at the Battle of Monocacy Junction.

Early state historians, like Jacob Piatt Dunn and William Woollen, gave Jennings high praise and credited him with the defeat of the pro-slavery forces in Indiana and with laying the foundation of the state.

Grant's next choice was a man aggressive enough to defeat Early: Philip Sheridan, the cavalry commander of the Army of the Potomac.

* Early studies called for close to a million U. S. troops to completely defeat the Viet Cong, but it would be impossible to convince Congress or the U. S. public to deploy that many soldiers

Early in the Battle of France, German forces managed to defeat Allied forces and push them back considerably.

Early in 1822 the Waikato forces suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Ngāti Toa and their allies at Motunui in north Taranaki.

He found a new commander aggressive enough to defeat Early: Philip Sheridan, the cavalry commander of the Army of the Potomac, who was given command of all forces in the area, calling them the Army of the Shenandoah.

In a surprise attack, Early routed two thirds of the Union army, but his troops were hungry and exhausted and fell out of their ranks to pillage the Union camp ; Sheridan managed to rally his troops and defeat Early decisively.

This division took part in the Battle of Monocacy on the following day, and, although unable to defeat Early, checked his advance on Washington, D. C., giving the defenses their time to organize.

In the latter battle occurred the famous incident of Sheridan's Ride from Winchester, followed by a defeat from which Early never recovered.

Early in the film the character attempts to defeat The Five Heartbeats in a vocal contest.

In June 1864 he accompanied General Early on his raid through the Shenandoah Valley toward Washington, D. C., and one of his maps contributed to Early's successful surprise attack against General Philip Sheridan at the Battle of Cedar Creek ( although the map was not able to prevent Early's decisive defeat by the end of the battle ).

" In September 1864, after the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, Wickham blocked at Milford an attempt by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan to encircle and destroy the Confederate forces of Maj. Gen. Jubal Anderson Early.

In the cargo bay, Jayne mocks Book's failure to defeat Early, despite " all them years of priest trainin '", and Book implies that he fought Early and only succumbed after a prolonged fight.

Early on the morning of November 8, Talent conceded defeat to McCaskill.

Early in the season, Pilkington conceded a goal in bizarre circumstances during a League Cup First Round defeat to Notts County.