The Congressman tried hard, but failed.

The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

Julian the Apostate ( 359-61 ) tried to revive the Delphic oracle, but failed.

Alfonso tried to regain the favour of the queen, but failed, and had to wait for the death of both Louis ( at Cosenza in 1434 ) and Joan herself ( February 1435 ).

Alfonso tried to besiege the city in the following September, but failed.

Later, in 1320, he tried to resurrect the navy by constructing 20 galleys, but failed.

After the battle a storm arose and the generals in command failed to collect survivors: the Athenians tried and sentenced six of the eight generals to death.

Lesbos tried to revolt first, and failed completely.

Ahmad Shah tried several more times to subjugate the Sikhs permanently, but failed.

This failed and Hippias again fled to Sardis and tried to persuade the Persians to subjugate Athens.

While there, Space Ghost tried ( and failed ) to show he was " hip " to rap, saying his favorite rapper was M. C. Escher.

Although the Bogotá junta called itself a " Supreme Junta of the New Kingdom of Granada ," it failed to provide political unity, and battles broke out between cities and towns as each tried to defend its sovereignty.

Trotsky and Rykov tried to reorganise the party in early 1923, by debureaucratising it, however, in this they failed, and Stalin managed to enlarge the Central Committee.

Early researchers tried to establish a link between déjà vu and serious psychopathology such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and dissociative identity disorder, but failed to find the experience of some diagnostic value.

Sher Ali tried, but failed, to keep them out.

In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.

Toward the end of the ninth century, several emperors tried, but failed, to check the Fujiwara.

In his first years in Paris, Mesmer tried and failed to get either the Royal Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society of Medicine to provide official approval for his doctrines.

They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).

Arana tried to prematurely hasten the process of Arévalo's descent in a failed coup which brought about Arana's death in a controversial arrest-gone-wrong.

He tried to solidify it by further reducing the temperature but failed because helium does not have a triple point temperature at which the solid, liquid, and gas phases are at equilibrium.

Assyrian King, Sennacherib, tried and failed to conquer Judah.

It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.

Hoxha first tried to convince Shehu to step aside voluntarily, but when this move failed, Hoxha arranged for all the members of the Politburo to rebuke him for allowing his son to become engaged to the daughter of a former bourgeois family.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

There was a letter to write to her mother, and she tried to make its tone cheerful.

Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had tried to write a letter.

The only relief he could get was in his bath over which he improvised a desk to write his list of suspect counter-revolutionaries who were to be quickly tried and, if convicted, guillotined.

Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle.

Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his wife Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him.

However, after the contest various members of The Barons drifted away, leaving only Berry and Torrence, who tried to write their own songs.

Also notable among the later novels is The History of Henry Esmond, in which Thackeray tried to write a novel in the style of the eighteenth century.

Starting with 1. 1 or 1. 2 this danger was reduced: if one changed disks without reading the new disk's directory, and tried to write to it, the operating system would signal a fatal error, avoiding overwriting but requiring a reboot ( which took no more than a few seconds, but implied losing whatever data you were trying to save ).

In his modernist epic collage of place, Paterson ( published between 1946 and 1958 ), an account of the history, people, and essence of Paterson, New Jersey, he tried to write his own Modernist epic poem, focusing on " the local " on a wider scale than he had previously attempted.

As an adult, he tried on many occasions to write a novel, but was never able to complete one to his satisfaction.

He also "... did some staff work at a Binghamton radio station ... tried to write ... but never had anything published.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Gustaf V tried to write a private letter to Hitler thanking him for taking care of the " Bolshevik pest " and congratulating him on his " already achieved victories ".

He composed little during this time, and what he did write he couldn't get performed ; the Rosé Quartet ( led by Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Arnold Rosé ) would not even look at his D minor Quartet after it was picked apart in a column, and the premiere of Penthesilea was met by the Vienna Philharmonic, when they tried it out under their celebrated conservative conductor Hans Richter, with nothing but derision for " the man who had dared to criticize " Meister Brahms ," as Richter himself caustically put it.

During this time, Bradfield had tried writing lyrics, but this later changed and Wire wrote all their earliest lyrics, leaving Bradfield, alongside the classically-trained Sean Moore when he joined, to write the music.

Robbie Robertson was so moved by an advance screening that he approached Fonda and tried to convince him to let him write a complete score, even though the film was nearly due for wide release.

Standard German originated not as a traditional dialect of a specific region, but as a written language, developed over a process of several hundred years, in which writers tried to write in a way that was understood in the largest area.

Columbia then tried to get Herman Mankiewicz to write it, with Felix Young to produce.

Confalonieri was taken to Vienna and had a long interview with Prince Metternich, who tried to extract further confessions incriminating other persons, especially Charles Albert, but although Confalonieri seemed at one time inclined to prepare a report on the revolutionary movement for the emperor, he did not do so, and once he was in prison he refused to say or write another word, and was treated with exceptional severity in consequence.

Much of the recently passed New Deal legislation was being tried in the courts for constitutionality and enforcement, putting Minton in the uncommon position of adjudicating cases depending on legislation he had helped write.

At one point, Rieber himself tried to withdraw from the project, but Berger was still convinced that he could do it, and when the Vertigo The Children's Crusade event was being planned, she asked him to write one of the chapters to reintroduce Tim to the DC universe.

She tried to write contemporary mainstream fiction in the early 1970s and then gave up, turning to ancient Egypt for inspiration.

The next place Kollontai tried to speak and write against the war was Sweden.

Ronsard also tried early on to adapt the Pindaric ode into French and, later, to write a nationalist verse epic modelled on Homer and Virgil ( entitled the Franciade ), which he never completed.