Some astronomers endeavoured to explain this by parallax, but these attempts were futile, for the motion was at variance with that which parallax would produce.

Non-Aboriginal Australians have made various attempts to understand and explain the origins of the bunyip as a physical entity over the past 150 years.

Various attempts to explain this foundered on other difficulties.

There have been many attempts to explain the depiction of Cerberus.

Over the years, there have been many attempts to explain how a Crookes radiometer works:

Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions.

Judaism views the worship of Jesus as inherently polytheistic, and rejects the Christian attempts to explain the Trinity as a complex monotheism.

An evolution expounded in the book which attempts to explain the facts leading up to the Act of Union 1707 dates all the way back to the 6 December 1604 when King James was presented with a proposed embellishment for unification.

* John D. Caputo attempts to explain deconstruction in a nutshell by stating that: " Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or a pithy maxim — the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.

The endosymbiosis theory attempts to explain the origins of organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts in eukaryotic cells.

Modern physics attempts to explain every observed physical phenomenon by these fundamental interactions.

The game includes rules, three adventures and four adventure outlines, a wargame by Matthew Hartley, a long section on the ' science ' of Flatland which attempts to explain aspects of the world and its natives, and the original book.

Philosophy of love is the field of social philosophy and ethics which attempts to explain the nature of love.

But it does not explain how flat plates, symmetric airfoils, sailboat sails, or conventional airfoils flying upside down can generate lift, and attempts to calculate lift based on the amount of constriction do not predict experimental results.

The Lorentz transformation was originally the result of attempts by Lorentz and others to explain how the speed of light was observed to be independent of the reference frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism.

Memetics attempts to apply conventional scientific methods ( such as those used in population genetics and epidemiology ) to explain existing patterns and transmission of cultural ideas.

The theory attempts to explain how what we call intelligence could be a product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts.

His main point, however, is that redemption is so incomprehensible that it cannot be fully appreciated, and he attempts to explain that how God atones for sin is not nearly as important as the fact that he does.

The last part of the theory attempts to explain how we experience spatiotemporal consistency in our interaction with environmental stimuli.

As a " historical science " it attempts to explain causes rather than conduct experiments to observe effects.

In the essay titled " The God Conception of Buddhism " he attempts to explain how a Buddhist looks at the ultimate without an anthropomorphic God figure while still being able to relate to the term God in a Buddhist sense:

The Dilbert Principle attempts to explain how a person who has never been competent at anything at any point in time can still be promoted into management.

Jains compare all attempts to proclaim absolute truth with andhgajnyaya or the " maxim of the blind men and elephant ", wherein all the blind men claimed to explain the true appearance of the elephant, but could only partly succeed due to their narrow perspective.

A number of attempts have been made to explain the link between altered brain function and schizophrenia.

Systematics is also of major importance in understanding conservation issues because it attempts to explain the Earth's biodiversity and could be used to assist in allocating limited means to preserve and protect endangered species, by looking at, for example, the genetic diversity among various taxa of plants or animals and deciding how much of that to preserve.

In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

Carlos Beltrán, with 286 steals, has the highest career success rate of all players with over 300 stolen base attempts, at 88. 3 %.

This prohibition is much less flexible than the prohibition against the transactions with the company, and attempts to circumvent it using provisions in the articles have met with limited success.

Failed attempts at reform, a standstill economy, and the success of United states of America against the Soviet Union's forces in the war in Afghanistan led to a general feeling of discontent, especially in the Baltic republics and Eastern Europe.

Pneumatic motors have found widespread success in the hand-held tool industry and continual attempts are being made to expand their use to the transportation industry.

A lot of attempts were made before the success of the Jazz Singer, that can be seen in the List of film sound systems.

Various attempts have been made by engineers to mimic the process of facilitated transport in synthetic ( i. e., non-biological ) membranes for use in industrial-scale gas and liquid separations, but these have met with limited success to date, most often for reasons related to poor carrier stability and / or loss of carrier from the membrane.

As already mentioned, the fallacy is built on the notion that previous failures indicate an increased probability of success on subsequent attempts.

His attempts to carry out badly needed economic and social reforms met with little success, and the new constitution promulgated in February 1977 failed to quell chronic political instability.

Harley-Davidson's attempts to establish itself in the light motorcycle market have met with limited success and have largely been abandoned since the 1978 sale of its Italian Aermacchi subsidiary.

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

His attempts to consolidate his rule in Lithuania met with mixed success ; in 1249, an internal war erupted when he sought to seize his nephews ' and Vykintas ' lands.

The lack of a sufficient individual education, due to a perhaps intentionally provoked low quality of school, is then considered one of the major reasons for the success of such attempts.

Other attempts were made by competitors to create soaps ( including Seconde Chance, Cinq soeurs and Paris 16ème ) but have not achieved success.

On October 4 after two attempts to replicate the success of the 2004 team, the Rangers dismissed Buck Showalter as manager with three years left on his contract.

Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and Charles II ratifying the pawning in the 1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown, explicitly exempting them from any " dissolution of His Majesty ’ s lands ", they are currently considered as being officially part of the United Kingdom.

He was not well known in the United States despite his success in England, and earlier attempts to introduce him to the American market had failed.

After some years spent teaching and in ineffective attempts to obtain the production of more than one opera, he saw the enormous success of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana in 1890, and he wasted no time in producing his own verismo hit, Pagliacci.

If we used the negative binomial distribution to model the number of goal attempts a sportsman makes before scoring a goal, though, then each unsuccessful attempt would be a “ success ”, and scoring a goal would be “ failure ”.

Encouraged by the success of Trial by Jury, Carte made attempts in 1875 – 76 to raise money for either a revival of Thespis or a new piece.

Before the success of gyrocompass, several attempts had been made in Europe to use gyroscope instead.

He attempts to impose celibacy on the secular clergy without noticeable success.

Like in the rest of the Crimea, Russian remains the predominant language in the city, although following the independence of Ukraine there have been some attempts at Ukrainization with very little success.

According to Dumézil, " the fruitless attempts of Arpoxais and Lipoxais, in contrast to the success of Colaxais, may explain why the highest strata was not that of farmers or magicians, but rather that of warriors.

With state financing, attempts were made throughout the 16th century, but without success until early on in the 17th century.