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 to find her remains had failed.

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 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 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 the lamination technique, shapers accomplished this by using glue.

Previous to the grant the council had been using the arms of Diocese of Ely: Gules, three ducal coronets, two and one or.

For that we run backwards through the log for each transaction ( those runs can of course be combined into one ) using the Previous Sequence Number fields in the records.

Previous methods of simulation and statistical sampling generally did the opposite: using simulation to test a previously understood deterministic problem.

Previous bank doors, vaults, and safes had plates of hard cast behind soft wrought iron, which can be easily broken using the right amount of leverage and skillful vault-picking.

Previous searches for gravitational waves in space were conducted for short periods by planetary missions that had other primary science objectives ( such as Cassini – Huygens ), using microwave Doppler tracking to monitor fluctuations in the Earth-spacecraft distance.

" Previous to Saichō, all monastic ordinations took place at Tōdai-ji temple under the ancient Vinaya code, but Saichō intended to found his school as a strictly Mahayana institution and ordain monks using the Bodhisattva Vows only.

Previous efforts in many developed countries had already led to dramatic reductions in the infant mortality rate using preventative methods.

Previous to this flat surfaces were laboriously made by hand with the fitter using hammers and chisels, files and scrapers to get a true surface.

Previous high-energy nuclear accelerator experiments have studied heavy-ion collisions using projectile energies of 1 GeV / nucleon up to 158 GeV / nucleon.

Previous administrations had paid for the excess by using money from the federal government for " war claims " by the state and money from the state's sinking fund.

Previous releases of the Rainbow Six series did not have this system, and using a mod required overwriting existing game content.

Previous ownership had set up repeaters ( low-power transmitters ) scattered across San Diego to improve transmission of the radio station, but because those created as many problems as they solved, KPRI stopped using some of them in 1997.

Previous accounts of a bright flash in the sky were dismissed as occurring too late in the evening to have caused the crash.

Previous attempted restorations by Greece damaged the roof of the Caryatids ' porch with concrete patches, along with major damage caused by pollution in Athens.

Previous director Jules Schucat had been very popular, and his ouster caused several members to go on strike.

Previous similar cases had failed before criminal courts as they attempted to prove assault had caused harm, whereas this case was heard before a civil court which worked on the balance of probability and found for the complainant, Marcus Hallows.

Previous megatsunamis in Hawaii 110, 000 years ago caused by similar geological phenomena created waves 1, 600 feet ( 500 m ) tall.