Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

David attempted to win the Prix de Rome, an art scholarship to the French Academy in Rome, five times.

The goddesses stripped naked to try to win Paris ' decision, and also attempted to bribe him.

Rome descended into factional infighting, while Cardinal Aymeric and Leo Frangipani attempted to win over the resistance of Urban, the City Prefect, and the Pierleoni family with bribes and extravagant promises.

The Cowboys went on to stave off an attempted Packers comeback in the second half and win the game 27-17.

At the same time, given their restricted circumstances and remaining options, they attempted to work against the occupier's forced measures and to win time.

When the Gonzalo Pizarro rebellion began in Peru, the insurgents attempted unsuccessfully to win Valdivia to their side.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles V attempted to win back Protestant princes through a series of colloquies and imperial diets.

The next development of the GT-R, the four-door PGC10 2000 GT-R, scored 33 victories in the one and a half years it raced, and by the time it attempted its 50th consecutive win, its run was ended by a Mazda Savanna RX-3.

Several years ago, Charley attempted to reform his character so as to win the affection of Marlene.

In the early 1990s, Lambert attempted to win the rights to produce Doctor Who independently for the BBC ; however, this effort was unsuccessful because the Corporation was already in negotiations with producer Philip Segal in the United States.

Byrd was one of several aviators who attempted to win the Orteig Prize in 1927 for making the first nonstop flight between the United States and France.

After Jena Napoleon attempted to win over Sweden, but Gustav rejected every overture.

The natural resources agreement between Alberta and the federal government was signed December 14, 1929. Brownlee attempted to leverage his relationship with King to win provincial control of natural resources.

He saved from Andrea Pirlo and Shevchenko in the ensuing penalty shootout, in an eventual 3 – 2 win: during the shootout, he attempted to distract the Milan players with the " spaghetti legs " tactic that was used by former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar in the 1984 European Cup Final.

Conn attempted to become the first World Light Heavyweight Champion in boxing history to win the World Heavyweight Championship when he and Louis met on June 18 of that year, and incredibly, to do so without going up in weight.

In this spirit, Pico della Mirandola, who was not a humanist but an Aristotelian trained in Paris, attempted to construct a syncretism of all religions, but his work did not win favor with Church authorities.

Miller's Tories attempted to win the NDP's support, but were unable to agree to Rae's terms.

The question was asked, and the player in control attempted to select the correct answer from among the four possible to win $ 1, 000 and the right to attempt the $ 10, 000 question.

The case was sensationalized in the press and raised issues over victims ' rights, as Chambers ' attorney attempted to smear Levin's reputation to win his client's freedom.

In 2003, Downey attempted to win Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling a 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, by organising a letter writing campaign via e-mail.

In his early years, Dyke was an active supporter of the Labour Party and in 1977 he attempted to win a seat on the Greater London Council for Labour at Putney.

Liandri attempted to win back the champion title with Xan MK2 but failed ( unknown to the other contestants, each member of the Corrupt is purely robotic, including Xan ).

After the war, together with navigator Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve, he attempted to win the Daily Mail £ 10, 000 prize for the first flight across the Atlantic in " 72 consecutive hours ".

Initially Guzmán attempted to win over the support of citizens by punishing corrupt government officials and other unpopular leaders.

In 1856, Isabella attempted to form the Union Liberal Party, a pan-national coalition under the leadership of Leopoldo O ' Donnell, who had already marched on Madrid that year and deposed another Espartero ministry.

Russell & Gladstone ( now the senior Liberal in the House of Commons ) attempted to pass a reform bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons because of the refusal of the " Adullamite " Whigs, led by Robert Lowe, to support it.

Robinson attempted a political comeback in the 2006 federal election but was defeated in Vancouver Centre in his attempt to unseat Liberal Hedy Fry.

During the Keating Government, the Prime Minister attempted to limit the number of questions asked in a way the Liberal Opposition disapproved of.

During the era of Confederation, British-style Whig liberals from Canada West, the Clear Grits and Reformers, attempted to work with the anti-clerical minority in Canada East, the Parti rouge, and liberals in the Maritimes to form the Liberal Party.

The Liberal Democratic Party government of Masayoshi Ohira had attempted to introduce a consumption tax in 1979.

It was of the greatest importance for the history of German thought that, by systematically studying the French Revolution, a Rhenish Liberal attempted to overturn the influence which the revolutionary legend, expounded by French writers, had exerted over the German mind ; and the book played an essential part in the influences which led to the formation of a National Liberal school of thought.

* The 2008 – 2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, in which Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois Members of Parliament attempted to have a vote of non-confidence against the Conservative government and replace it with a coalition government, was unprecedented in the Canadian constitutional system, as formal party based co-operation was rare.

However, the Liberal Party was later able to unify over its opposition to the Education Act 1902 and the Brussels Sugar Convention of 1902, in which Britain and nine other nations attempted to stabilise world sugar prices by setting up a commission to investigate export bounties and decide on penalties.

The Liberal Army mistreated the population, most of whom it suspected of being Carlist sympathizers, to the point of, sometimes, attempted extermination ; Carlists, very often, treated Liberals no better than they had treated Napoleonic soldiers and agents ), to the point where the international powers forced the warring parties to recognize some rules of war, namely the " Lord Eliot Convention ".

Harris's handling of the tragedy was also criticized, as he initially attempted to place some of the blame on previous Liberal and NDP governments.

Meighen attempted to make the " Unionist " party a permanent alliance of Tories and Liberals by renaming it the National Liberal and Conservative Party, but this name change failed, and most Unionist Liberals either returned to the Liberal fold or joined the new Progressive Party.

She attempted to enter federal politics by running for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1984 federal election.

In May 1994, Hewson was surprised by opinion poll finding on an episode of Lateline titled John Hewson " s Liberal party, later that month he attempted to quell leadership speculation in general by calling a leadership ballot for the 23rd May 1994, but he lost the vote and the leadership to Alexander Downer.

Borden's successor, Arthur Meighen formally attempted to make the Unionist coalition permanent by creating the " National Liberal and Conservative Party " but most Liberals ended up returning to their old party and some Conservatives balked at what they saw as an attempt to destroy the Conservative Party.

Borden attempted to continue the Unionist Party after the war and when Arthur Meighen succeeded him in 1920, he renamed it the " National Liberal and Conservative Party " in the hope of making the coalition permanent.

During World War II, the Conservatives attempted to oppose the Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1940 election by proposing a " national government " along the lines of the previous war's Unionist government.

Lewis attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1988 election, making an unsuccessful bid to represent Annapolis West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the Liberal Party.

There were few experienced Labour lawyers in the House of Commons, however, and the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald attempted to lure prominent Liberal lawyers to fill the positions of Attorney General and Solicitor General for England and Wales.

His campaign attempted to draw attention to water pollution and the high cost of housing in the province, though his efforts on the latter front were undercut by the federal Liberal government's decision to increase interest payments on the National Housing Act in mid-campaign.

The CUP has at times been identified with the two opposition parties attempted to be introduced the Progressive Republican Party and the Liberal Republican Party into Turkish politics during the life of Kemal.

During the 1949 federal election, the Toronto Star, which openly supported the Liberal Party, attempted to link the unpopular Houde with George Drew, then leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada even though Houde was running as an independent candidate against an official Progressive Conservative candidate.

Martin successfully attempted to embrace the populist movement by, in 1920, severing ties with the federal Liberal Party of Canada bringing in Dunning and also by recruiting another farm leader, federal Progressive MP John Archibald Maharg, into the government.