Word Finder - attempts

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The action of trying at something.

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It was worth the attempt.

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An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

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1584 No man can charge us of any attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)

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To try.

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A group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn't make it to the top.

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To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.

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To try to win, subdue, or overcome.

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one who attempts the virtue of a woman

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To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

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to attempt the enemy's camp

Neither of these attempts is practicable.

It took three attempts, but she finally bounced high enough to shut off the alarm.

I don't mean the four attempts on the one case.

Her gentle attempts to get Lisa to sit were futile.

She was a horrible liar, uncertain enough in her attempts that he assessed she didn't do it often.

This allows you to see all of the action as the chef attempts to make preparing your meal an entertaining experience.

The mention of him reminded her of her cramped stomach and the half dozen failed attempts to eat normal food.

Gabriel replaced the hourglass after several unsuccessful attempts to shake it.

Eventually her attempts to tame him paid off, and he allowed her to touch him - provided she was careful not to move too quickly.

Which made three times you were broaching the subject of matrimony and I thwarted your attempts.

Still, she didn't usually resist his attempts.

His attempts at braiding her dark hair the way she liked it had ended up in a series of knots, because he didn't quite understand how to do it and his man-sized fingers were too clumsy.

Unyielding, even with his attempts to breach her mind and influence her.

His mind control attempts against mine, and we had our own agendas.

The attempts of the government to counteract his influence by founding a rival paper, the Vilag, only increased his importance and added to the political excitement.

There is no definite rule as to the material or character of the ornamentation, and attempts have been made, especially in England, to revive the use of the apparelled alb.

Many attempts were made to shake his fidelity to the lost cause of the Stuarts, but he continued indomitable to the end.

During his reign Poland suffered much humiliation from the attempts of her subject principalities, Prussia and Moldavia, to throw off her yoke.

Attempts have been made, principally founded on some remarks of Huygens, to show that Descartes had learned the principles of refraction from the manuscript of a treatise by Willebrord Snell, but the facts are uncertain; and, so far as Descartes founds his optics on any one, it is probably on the researches of Kepler.

They failed, however, in both attempts; and in the latter, owing to the darkness, and to the occurrence of a violent storm which suddenly swelled the torrents in the ravines, their force was thrown into inextricable confusion, and they were compelled to abandon their camp and make the best of their escape from the country.

Properties.--All attempts to make helium enter into stable chemical union have hitherto proved unsuccessful.

During the next few weeks Cromwell appears to have made once more attempts to come to terms with Charles; but the king was inflexible in his refusal to part with the essential powers of the monarchy, or with the Church; and at the end of December it was resolved to bring him to trial.

He had after the siege of Miletus disbanded the GraecoMacedonian fleet, surrendering for the time all attempts of Alex- to challenge the command of the Aegean.

In recent years attempts have been made by Albanians resident abroad to propagate the national idea among their compatriots at home; committees have been formed at Brussels, Bucharest, Athens and elsewhere, and books, pamphlets and newspapers are surreptitiously sent into the country.

Alarmed at the attempts made upon his life by his mother, he fled to the mountains and was for many years a hunter.

Where attempts are made to reduce the third theory to practice the result is not satisfactory.

Feverish attempts were made to remedy the lack of warlike stores, but difficulty was experienced on account of the fleet blockading the entrance to the river.

The duke of Sully carried out a revision in 1604, and other attempts were made by Mazarin and Colbert, but the extravagarces of Louis XV.

She withdrew from the king's society, and in spite of Clarendon's attempts to moderate her resentment, declared she would return to Portugal rather than consent to a base compliance.

It may further be added that materialism can be shown to be an inadequate philosophy in its attempts to account even for the physical universe, for this is inexplicable without the assumption of mind distinct from, and directive of, matter.

Few attempts, however, have been made to prospect systematically for this valuable mineral.

The manganese ores of the Bathurst district of New South Wales often contain a small percentage of cobalt - sufficient, indeed, to warrant further attempts to work them.

Attempts have frequently been made to use the mineral for ordinary fuel purposes, but its inferior quality has prevented its general use.

Diamonds are found in all the states; but only in New South Wales have any attempts been made to work the diamond drifts.

While Cook was speculating on the cause of this phenomenon, and was in the act of ordering out the boats to take soundings, the " Endeavour " struck heavily, and fell over so much that the guns, spare cables, and other heavy gear had at once to be thrown overboard to lighten the ship. As day broke, attempts were made to float the vessel off with the morning tide; but these were unsuccessful.

These local researches, and the more comprehensive attempts of Leichhardt and Mitchell to solve the chief problems of.

Of the several attempts to cross Western Australia, even Major Warburton's expedition, the most successful, had failed in the important particular of determining the nature of the country through which it passed.

Ernest Giles made several attempts to cross the Central Australian Desert, but it was not until his third attempt that he was successful.

Several attempts had been made by individuals belonging to the Labour party to enter the New South Wales parliament, but it was not until 1891 that the occurrence of a general election gave the party the looked-for opportunity for concerted action.

The The siege dykes were cut, the land flooded, but again and again and relief a relieving force was baulked in its attempts to reach of Leiden.

Attempts to breed these sheep in other countries have always resulted in a deterioration in the quality of the skins owing to some peculiarity of climate.

Repeated attempts were made by various European nations to subdue the pirates, and in 1816 the city was bombarded by a British squadron under Lord Exmouth, assisted by Dutch men-of-war, and the corsair fleet burned.

Cromwell had exhausted every expedient for arriving at an arrangement with the king by which the royal authority might be preserved, and the repeated perfidy and inexhaustible shiftiness of Charles had proved the hopelessness of such attempts.

Cromwell was essentially a conservative reformer; in his attempts to purge the court of chancery of its most flagrant abuses, and to settle the ecclesiastical affairs of the nation, he showed himself anxious to retain as much of the existing system as could be left untouched without doing positive evil.

In spite of almost insuperable difficulties the colony took root, trade began, the fleet lay in wait for the Spanish treasure ships, the settlements of the Spaniards were raided, and their repeated attempts to retake the island were successfully resisted.

The revolts of royalists and sectaries against his government had been easily suppressed, and the various attempts to assassinate him, contemptuously referred to by Cromwell as "little fiddling things," were anticipated and prevented by an excellent system of police and spies, and by his bodyguard of 160 men.

The first attempts involved the use of mirrors.

Experiments bearing on this subject were subsequently made by a great number of investigators.4 Page's discovery is of considerable importance in connexion with the theory of action of various forms of telephone, and was a very important feature in the early attempts by Reis to transit music and speech.

Attempts have been made to improve submarine cables in this respect, and in 1906 a short cable " loaded " with Pupin coils was laid across Lake Constance.

Among the most noteworthy examples of such attempts maybe mentioned the revolt of the barons against Ferdinand I.