Anna tries to shoot Avon in the back but Avon kills her and frees Servalan.

The Major falls off the roof of the house after being chased by Louis ; Harry is killed by One-Round, who thinks Harry has killed Mrs. W after having a change of heart ; One-Round tries to shoot Louis and Marcus when he overhears a plan to double-cross him, but leaves the gun's safety catch on and is himself killed by Louis ; Marcus kills Louis by dislodging his ladder under the tunnel behind the house, causing Louis to fall into a passing railway wagon.

Shane tries to teach him and his mother that a gun is a tool like any other, except it's designed to shoot people.

In the novel Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Phlegethon is guarded not by centaurs, but by military officers taken from all eras of history ( with instructions to shoot anyone who tries to escape ).

She tries to shoot Honor, but hits the family dog instead.

The boy tosses up his bottle and tries to shoot it, then fires off two more rounds before the gun missfires.

The assassin retreats to the opera house façade's staircase and tries to shoot Michael there.

When Nora sneaks back later by herself, Buddy becomes agitated, confesses to the murder, pulls out a gun, and tries to shoot Nora.

Clayworth grabs the rifle and, after confessing ( and also revealing a deep hatred for Nick for always being better than him in their youth ), tries to shoot his nemesis, only to find that Nick had taken the precaution of having the firing pin removed.

Marswell tries to warn the husband, but then a bull gorilla charges, forcing him to shoot the beast, cutting off his confession.

Just then, Leo regains consciousness and tries to shoot Johnny.

Vince tries but fails to shoot his father, and when Bugsy takes the pistol it accidentally goes off, shooting Rod between the eyes.

He ultimately tries to shoot Janie with his pistol, but she shoots him with a rifle in self-defense.

* In Red vs Blue, when the character Church is thrown back in time in Episode 50, he tries to prevent certain things from happening, in the process leading to everything becoming the way it was: kicking dirt on a switch hoping it to be replaced, instead it was kept and later got stuck ; giving his captain painkillers to prevent a heart attack, but killing him because the captain is allergic to aspirin ; trying to make the tank not kill him by disabling the friendly-fire protocol, which later proves his death ; telling the tank and robot that they should not leave and build a robot army, thereby giving them the idea to do it ; trying to shoot O ' Malley with the rocket launcher only to shoot Tucker because of the launcher's highly defective targeting system and his inability to aim.

When the police arrive, Finkle orders the cops to shoot Ace ; whereupon Ace tries to expose Finkle by ripping off her clothes, but fails until assisted by Marino, to which also concludes Finkle murdered Podacter because he learned who Einhorn was.

Before Alex can reply, the Xandoxan -- mentally controlling its severed arm -- tries to shoot Alex, but Centauri intercepts the blast and returns fire, incinerating the alien.

The episode is rather faithful to Doyle's story, except that Moran tries to shoot Holmes in Switzerland instead of dropping boulders on him, and Watson – not Holmes – deduces the reason that Moran had for killing Ronald Adair.

After a short struggle, Rick ( the passenger ) tries to shoot Leatherface with a. 44 Magnum revolver, but misses his target.

She successfully stops Smith's execution, but Ratcliffe tries to shoot Chief Powhatan in anger with Smith taking the bullet.

After Averell shoots Blaine, Kate catches him stealing money from the saloon, and when he tries to shoot her, she and Blaine kill him.

Though the Hobbits decide to allow the pair to leave the Shire unharmed, Saruman meets his end shortly thereafter, when Wormtongue avenges his abuse at the hands of his master by cutting Saruman's throat ; Wormtongue is in turn killed by the Hobbits, who shoot him down with arrows as he tries to flee.

Finally, he tries to shoot himself with a police officer's gun but is prevented from doing so by the ministrations of a sweet young thing in a pair of panties, and experiences a revelation of what was missing from his movie-Free Love!

Cadby then tries to shoot Ace, but is thwarted by Greenwall who punches him in the face.

" In his book Indoctrination and Self-deception, Roderick Hindery tries to shed light on these tensions by contrasting them with impostors of authentic self-affirmation and altruism, by analysis of other-regard within creative individuation of the self, and by contrasting love for the few with love for the many.

Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.

Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.

Moore and Hastings Rashdall ) tries to meet the difficulty by advocating a plurality of ends and including among them the attainment of virtue itself, which, as John Stuart Mill affirmed, " may be felt a good in itself, and desired as such with as great intensity as any other good.

Indeed, he tries to reinvent these notions from a personal point of view and to introduce them into human relationships.

The Harvard students took to the rugby rules and adopted them as their own, travelling to Montreal to play a further game of rugby in the Fall of the same year winning by three tries to nil.

Ashamed, Xavier tries to explain to them that by the time he realized what was happening, he could see no other course.

A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.

Mildred tries to incinerate the books, but Montag subdues her and tells her that the two of them are going to read the books to see if they have value.

When he finally reaches the cables, Andoh tries to stop him from releasing them.

Similarly, one should trust one's city to an expert in the subject of the good, not to a mere politician who tries to gain power by giving people what they want, rather than what's good for them.

Pilate ( together with the visiting Biggus Dickus ) tries to quell the feeling of revolution by granting them the decision of who should be pardoned.

The degree to which taxonomy depends on phylogenies differs between schools of taxonomy: numerical taxonomy ignored phylogeny altogether, trying to represent the similarity between organisms instead ; phylogenetic systematics tries to reproduce phylogeny in its classification without loss of information ; evolutionary taxonomy tries to find a compromise between them in order to represent stages of evolution.

Guildenstern tries to look on the bright side, while Rosencrantz makes it clear that the pair had made no progress, that Hamlet had entirely outwitted them.

In his recent two projects Living with Hunger and Living with Refugees ( nominated for an Emmy award ), he takes reality television to its extreme, becoming the central character in the films by living the lifestyle of an Ethiopian villager and Sudanese refugee respectively ; in doing this he tries to break the boundary between " us " ( the people watching on TV ) and " them " ( those before the camera ) by becoming one of them ( albeit for just a month ).

He then interacts with a distraught woman who has hit a deer, and is being driven to distraction by the fact that she continually hits deer while commuting, no matter how hard she tries to avoid them.

When they arrive at the shelters, Jack calls an assembly and tries to turn the others against Ralph, asking for them to remove him from his position.

Since 2004 the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters tries to prove or disprove urban legends by attempting to reproduce them using the scientific method.

He discovers the pair of boots, which Estragon insists are not his but nevertheless fit when he tries them on.

When attacked by packs of hyenas or wild dogs a zebra group will huddle together with the foals in the middle while the stallion tries to ward them off.