Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

Previous attempts by the U. S. Military to replace the M16 were unsuccessful or only supplemented it.

Previous attempts to replace the consumer society as derived from capitalism with a non-consumerist society failed and in the mid-1930s permitted a consumer society, a major change from traditional Marxism's anti-market and anti-consumerist theories.

Previous attempts by Valve Software with the Half-Life series, Ritual Entertainment with SiN Episodes and Telltale Games themselves with Bone were for a variety of reasons not considered successful implementations of the distribution model.

Previous attempts at settlement of Australia ’ s northern coast at Fort Dundas, Raffles Bay and Port Essington had already failed.

Previous attempts to consolidate have been defeated.

Previous attempts at bringing large-scale residential development north of the air station were defeated after protests from long-time citizens and environmental advocacy groups.

Previous attempts by the killer resulted in the deaths of his victims.

Previous attempts by past Liberal Governments in the late 1990s and early 2000s to decriminalize marijuana for personal use have failed to become law.

Previous attempts at waterjet propulsion had very short lifetimes, generally due to the inefficient design of the units and the fact that they offered few advantages over conventional propellers.

Previous attempts at gas diffusion failed due to impurities in the diffusion barrier alloys causing corrosion of the apparatus by the uranium hexafluoride gas used in the process.

Previous attempts at deep brain stimulation-Terri Schiavo being one of the patients-failed to restore consciousness. This kind of stimulation can also be guided by results of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ( TMS ) as this was able to transitorily improve a patient in PVS ( Dr Pape, Chicago 2009 ) and another in the minimally conscious state ( 2010 ).

Previous attempts by MDA to integrate independent helicopter service in the 1970s were unsuccessful due to high cost.

Previous governments had made unsuccessful attempts to eliminate the upper chamber.

Previous attempts to raise money from the community had failed miserably.

Previous attempts using non-polymerized hemoglobin caused vasoconstriction.

Previous flight attempts starting in April 1941 by the first prototype airframe had been driven by a Junkers Jumo 210 piston engine, spinning a propeller in the fuselage's nose before any of its intended jet engines were flight-ready.

Previous attempts to make the trip have failed.

Previous attempts at aerial warfare against Phaya Thaen in his own element had proved futile ; but even the Sky must come down to the ground.

Previous attempts to utilize high-performance ceramics such as zirconium-oxide were thwarted by the fact that this material could not be processed using the traditional methods used in dentistry.

Previous attempts to deliver aid failed after trucks were unable to pass tsunami damaged roads near Foar, a village of 1000 people living in mud-and-wattle huts that had been destroyed.

Previous attempts to forge a multi-racial political movement, including the electoral pact between the ethnic Fijian Fijian Political Party ( better known in Fiji by its Fijian name, Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei ) and the predominantly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party, which contested the 1999 election unsuccessfully, had been well-meant but ill-timed, Ganilau said.

Previous strike attempts in 1905, 1910, 1916 and 1919 were crushed by the transit companies ' use of beakies, hired goons who intimidated and violently attacked any who opposed the transit companies.

Previous attempts at a comprehensive index had relied on secondary sources, this was the first attempt to provide the original publication details of the names.

" Previous generations of scholars argued that the crusaders were motivated by greed, hoping to find a better life away from the famines and warfare occurring in France, but as Asbridge notes, " This image is ... profoundly misleading.

Previous occupants of the room had complained that no one was ever able to find it, but it was on the same corridor as the Admiralty boardroom and the First Sea Lord's office ( Sir John Fisher ), who was one of the few people allowed to know of its existence.

Previous local businesses included a chip shop, which was run by a coal miner, whose customers apparently used to find traces of coal in their chips.

Previous commissioners include Republicans Mary Walker, who was forced to resign after using millions of public dollars to benefit her family business ; Scott Croswell, the owner of Croswell Bus Company ; and Archie Wilson, who resigned after illegal drug use and relations with a prostitute in northern Kentucky.

Previous to her election as Village Clerk, Nancy L. McConathy served as a library trustee.

Previous to those marriages she had been an Aztec princess who owned nothing except her distinguished name.

Previous General Hospital producers had received critical accolades and industry awards for stories involving this character and her HIV status, whereas Phelps did not.

Previous English and British queens consort had used the crown of Mary of Modena, wife of King James II of England, until Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the consort of King William IV, who had a special new consort crown created for her.

( Previous issues suggest that the one who stole her power is either Lilith or Neron himself.

Previous to acting, Taylor-Compton had been a competitive swimmer and had plans to participate in the AAU Junior Olympics, before focusing on her acting career.

< font size = 2 > Previous Shelby County Courthouse established in 1885 remains the base of the downtown section in Center .</ font size = 2 >

Previous to the war, the city's civilian population was about 300, 000, but before it was over, most of the populace had sought refuge elsewhere in Iran.

Previous game consoles sometimes had a difficult time replicating the arcade experience in home versions of popular arcade games.

Previous prophets had used " Israel " to mean the northern kingdom and its tribes ; when Ezekiel speaks of Israel he is addressing the deported remnant of Judah.

Previous political resistance to privatization had stalled liberalization efforts.

Previous Holy Roman Emperors had thought it their right, granted by God, to name the Pope, as well as other Church officials, such as bishops.

Previous to this relationship, Hall had not lived publicly in a lesbian relationship.

Previous editions had been divided into verses, however, the early versifications generally followed the paragraph structure of the original text.

Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).

Previous split-cycle engines have had two major problems-poor breathing ( volumetric efficiency ) and low thermal efficiency.

Previous U. S. administrations had offered to divide the region along the 49th parallel, which was not acceptable to Britain, as they had commercial interests along the Columbia River.

Previous charts had differed on the location.

Previous deputies had addressed the king on their bent knees, whereas the representatives of the Catholics had been permitted to stand.

Previous successions had involved strife between various rígdomna-men of royal blood.

Previous apologies had been offered by State and Territory governments in the period 1997 – 2001.

Previous organizations such as the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and various homophile groups had masked their purpose by deliberately choosing obscure names.

Previous motorcycle production at Sachsenring had been under the aegis of AWZ ( Auto-Werke Zwickau ).

Previous fantasy miniature wargames had been written, but this was the first one published.

( Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half )

Previous to this posting, he had been the military commander in Dalmatia.

Previous telegraph lines were overland or shorter, hence had less delay and the need for extra inductance was not so great.

Previous films about T. E. Lawrence had been planned but had not been made.

Previous wars had seen France lose most of its colonial empire.