It also is sometimes used as a euphemism for the practice of inbreeding, a practice that is generally frowned upon by horse breeders, though used by some in an attempt to fix certain traits.

Any attempt to fix observed errors tends to result in the introduction of other errors.

Inbreeding is used by breeders of domestic animals to fix desirable genetic traits within a population or to attempt to remove deleterious traits by allowing them to manifest phenotypically from the genotypes.

The Africans agree to help Haddock sail the ship to neutral territory in Djibouti, while Tintin and Skut attempt to fix the radio, which had been smashed.

Economists such as Milton Friedman from the Chicago school and others from the Public Choice school, argue that market failure does not necessarily imply that government should attempt to solve market failures, because the costs of government failure might be worse than those of the market failure it attempts to fix.

British competition law prohibits almost any attempt to fix prices.

* The Shamrock: A Further attempt to fix its species, by Nathaniel Colgan, published in the Irish Naturalist 1893 on the From Ireland web site.

Based on Johann Buxtorf the Elder and Noldius ( Christian Nolde ), the concordance is arranged to serve the purposes of a Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew lexicon, and also attempt to fix the primitive meaning of Hebrew roots.

The substance Rhoca-Gil was used to attempt fix the leakages, but failed to work properly.

In an attempt to fix this error, some have developed a modified system in which negative win shares are indeed possible.

The last attempt to fix the damages involved with the events of Back to the Future: The Game ends with even a more radical change, with Edna Strickland traveling under an assumed name to 1876 to act as a moral guide of the newly founded Hill Valley: however, after a failed confrontation with Beauregard Tannen, a Confederate soldier who built and founded the Palace Saloon, she accidentally causes a conflagration that consumes Hill Valley, turning it into a ghost town with herself as the only resident.

Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of diacritical notes on the external form of the Biblical text in an attempt to fix the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions and cantillation of the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, for the worldwide Jewish community.

In other words, the title transferred was full and complete, with an attempt to reserve the right to fix the price at which subsequent sales could be made ... to call the sale a license to use is a mere play upon words.

In every new emergency, no one knows for sure which agency or combination thereof will become involved. In 2005 there was an attempt to fix the problem by giving sectoral responsibilities to different humanitarian agencies, most notably with the UNHCR taking on the responsibility for protection and the management of camps and emergency shelters.

IGN offered similar sentiments, admiring the attempt to both " breathe life into a series that was running out of steam " and fix the lopsided multiplayer aspect of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 where Tails would always get lost off-screen, but disliked the actual clunky nature of the " rubber band " physics of the game's " buddy system ", and the lack of variation between acts of each world.

After only two months, Fall resigned as Prime Minister on April 30, saying that President Lansana Conté would not let him attempt to fix the economy.

Many see it as an attempt to fix a symptom rather than solving the real problem of e-mail spam, at the expense of causing problems for innocent users.

As originally agreed to between Cannell and then ABC executives Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner ( who would later form Carsey-Werner Productions ), the powers would be in the suit, not the guy ( though the suit would only work for him ) and Ralph would try to solve ordinary-type issues, such as trying to stop a fix in Major League Baseball (" The Two Hundred Miles-Per-Hour Fastball ") or an assassination attempt (" The Best Desk Scenario ").

The goal of system analysis is to determine where the problem is in an attempt to fix the system. This step involves breaking down the system in different pieces to analyze the situation, analyzing project goals, breaking down what needs to be created and attempting to engage users so that definite requirements can be defined.

The Goldwater – Nichols Act was an attempt to fix problems caused by inter-service rivalry, which had emerged during the Vietnam War, contributed to the catastrophic failure of the Iranian hostage rescue mission in 1980, and which were still evident in the invasion of Grenada in 1983.

* first-order change: changing the individuals in a setting to attempt to fix a problem

Thus, a gambling-motivated fix might not necessarily involve any direct attempt to influence the outright result, especially in team sports where such a fix would require the co-operation ( and prerequsitely, the knowledge ) of many people, and / or perhaps would be more likely to arouse suspicion.

In the north, Rommel had the Italian infantry divisions — supported by the Ramcke Brigade and the German 164th Infantry Division — conduct a frontal demonstration in an attempt to fix the British defenders in place while Rommel ′ s main attack cut through the southern sector and then turn north in a sharp left hook movement into Allied supply lines.

Durant took the first train to Flint to make an attempt to keep Chrysler at the helm of Buick.

Chrysler was then hired to attempt a turnaround by bankers who foresaw the loss of their investment in Willys-Overland Motor Company in Toledo, Ohio.

When Chrysler left Willys in 1921 after an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control from John Willys, he acquired a controlling interest in the ailing Maxwell Motor Company.

In 1982 & ' 83, Mitsubishi introduced the Australian-built Chrysler Sigma to the UK as the Lonsdale Sigma in an attempt to circumvent British import quotas, but the new brand was unsuccessful.

* 1996: In an attempt to move Plymouth downmarket, Chrysler makes the redesigned Voyager only available in base and mid-level SE models.

His involvement began in 1995, when with the assistance of retired Chrysler chairman and CEO Lee Iacocca, Kerkorian staged a takeover attempt on the Chrysler Corporation.

Chrysler Corporation used several different designs of composite material head gasket in an attempt to solve this problem.

In 1926, Walter P. Chrysler decided to attempt to compete with Cadillac and Lincoln in the luxury car field.

In 1955 Chrysler spun off the Imperial as its own separate marque in an attempt to compete directly with the Cadillac and Lincoln luxury marques offered by General Motors and Ford, respectively, rather than the traditional Chrysler competitors Buick, Mercury, and Oldsmobile.

Chrysler added a " Duster " trim package in an attempt to bolster waning sales, relying on the popularity of the time-tested 1970 – 1976 A-Body of the same name.

The Tiger was dropped in 1967 after an abortive attempt to fit it with a Chrysler engine, and the Hillman Imp – derived Stiletto disappeared in 1972.

Since the early 90s the team has concentrated on running Sports cars and GT cars running the works BMW operation in the French Supertouring Championship, winning the FIA GT Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hours in the GT2 class with a Chrysler Viper GTS-R and overall for Mazda 787B in 1991, on their second attempt and first after a decade ; preparing the Renault Clio S1600 for rallying and winning the ice racing Andros Trophy with a Toyota Corolla driven by Alain Prost.

Audi, Chrysler, Cadillac, and Panoz opted to use the LMP900 class, while MG were the only major manufacturer to attempt the LMP675 class.

Now, far too late, Villeroi tried to redeploy his 50 unused squadrons, but a desperate attempt to form line facing south, stretching from Offus to Mont St André, floundered amongst the baggage and tents of the French camp carelessly left there after the initial deployment.

This theory therefore utilises Herodotus ' suggestion that after Marathon, the Persian army re-embarked and tried to sail around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly ; however, according to the first theory this attempt would have occurred before the battle ( and indeed have triggered the battle ).

It was commonly used during the mid-1960s by Mexican-American activists, who, in attempt to reassert their civil rights, tried to rid the word of its polarizing negative connotation by reasserting a unique ethnic identity and political consciousness, proudly identifying themselves as Chicanos.

Some say that they were godless people, who in their lifetime had denied the resurrection, and committed other sins ; others think they were those Ephraimites who tried to escape from Egypt before Moses and perished in the attempt.

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.

Stafford first tried to sell the game to established publishers, but despite being accepted by three different game companies, each attempt ended in failure ; eventually he founded his own game company in 1974, the influential Chaosium, to publish his game.

Nasir ud din Mahmud tried to express his strength as a ruler and tried to ward off any Mongol attempt similar to the Siege of Baghdad ( 1258 ).

An attempt to provide for the reproduction of the reverberation was tried in the 1970s through quadraphonic sound but, again, the technology at that time was insufficient for the task.

The colonists tried again in 1605 with the same result, but a third attempt in 1607 was more successful and in due course Stornoway became a Burgh of Barony.

Thousands more Kazakhs tried to escape to China, although most starved in the attempt.

In response to this problem, the kings tried to centralize power over time ; but they lost control over Spoleto and Benevento definitively in the attempt.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.

For example, E. B. Tylor interpreted myth as an attempt at a literal explanation for natural phenomena: unable to conceive of impersonal natural laws, early man tried to explain natural phenomena by attributing souls to inanimate objects, giving rise to animism.

After a failed attempt in the 1930s to start an Israeli movement, the World Union for Progressive Judaism tried again in the 1970s and created the movement now known as the Israeli Progressive Movement.

Roy suggests several means of extending his lifespan ( demonstrating that he possesses at least equal knowledge to that of his creator about his physical construction ), but Tyrell reveals that he already tried each of these suggestions, failing in every attempt.

In Greece, the fascist organisation ESPO tried to create a Greek SS division, but the attempt was abandoned after its leader was assassinated.

After Gerry Mullins recovered Dallas ' onside kick attempt, the Steelers then tried to run out the clock on the next drive with four straight running plays, but the Cowboys defense stopped them on fourth down at their 39-yard line, giving Dallas one more chance to win.

The Redskins tried to salvage the drive with a field goal attempt, but their holder Jeff Rutledge fumbled the snap.

Unlike Henry II of England, Frederick did not attempt to end medieval feudalism, but rather tried to restore it.

During the sweeps of the 2002 – 03 TV season, Fox tried another attempt with The Pulse, hosted by Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith.

" He unsuccessfully tried to create a national bank, to be funded by what became an abortive attempt at an income tax on capitalists and stockholders.

Some tried to cross the River Forth where most drowned in the attempt.

This attempt to relieve his pain was tried despite the ban.

During the Suez Crisis Johnson supported the Anglo-French military attempt to topple the Egyptian dictator Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, and tried to prevent the US government from criticising the Israeli invasion of the Sinai peninsula.