Collocations withattempt
These are words often used in combination withattempt.
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abortive attempt
Here, then, the video link was used to recover and carry forward an abortive attempt at speech.
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ambitious attempt
Neural organization is a bold and ambitious attempt to outline some of the common threads in the constant flux of neuroscience research.
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apparent attempt
As shown below, the apparent attempt at fencestraddling is more significant than it seems.
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assassination attempt
Another of the detainees was wanted for an assassination attempt on a local employer.
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blatant attempt
It is a blatant attempt to pacify the supporters of the poll tax.
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bold attempt
This is a bold attempt to synthesise disparate, confusing and incomplete data.
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clumsy attempt
First, is the proposal not a blatant and clumsy attempt to load the costs of privatisation on the public sector?
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concerted attempt
A concerted attempt to reconstruct the vocabularies of languages in prehistory has been underway for decades.
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conscious attempt
Ideologically, the main thrust is a conscious attempt to redefine the boundaries of state action.
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conversion attempt
The two-point conversion attempt failed, however, and the game remained 14-9.
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crude attempt
They fell into three sub-groups that all had higher than average crude attempt rates but otherwise differed considerably from each other.
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cynical attempt
It also says that abolition is a "cynical attempt to silence any negative publicity".
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deliberate attempt
Milestones represents a deliberate attempt by the systematics community to set time aside to review developments and progress in biological systematics.
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desperate attempt to
In a desperate attempt to escape his ancestral history, he simply leaves home one day and heads north.
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failed attempt
This becomes clear through a study, such as this one, that investigates a failed attempt at constitutional innovation.
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feeble attempt
Annual allowances, as at present, represent a feeble attempt at categorisation of investments.
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fruitless attempt
Any renewal of the alliance would most likely have been a fruitless attempt to stop the haemorrhaging.
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futile attempt
Determining fetal status relative to that of a newborn is a far more fundamental problem than the often futile attempt to define the exact age of viability.
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genuine attempt
The result shows considerable intellectual effort and constitutes a genuine attempt to understand what is happening as societies age and generations seek new ways to define themselves.
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half-hearted attempt
Thirdly, they can make a half-hearted attempt to do both, and do neither adequately.
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initial attempt
Our initial attempt at venous access is via the umbilical vein in infants presenting in the first week of life.
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legislative attempt
It seems to me to be the most extraordinary legislative attempt, and one which is not valid.
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misguided attempt
Indeed, the science of comparative anatomy as a whole was a misguided attempt to "coordinate and classify" the immensity of nature.
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numerous attempts
Despite numerous attempts to estimate the level of returns to scale in the data, there is no broad agreement in the literature on its value.
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pass attempt
Tech attempted a two-point conversion, but the pass attempt fell incomplete.
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passing attempt
In 1946, he completed 17 of 33 passes for 264 yd, and led the league in yards per passing attempt (8.00).
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pathetic attempt
That is a pathetic attempt to wriggle out of his proper responsibilities.
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previous attempt
The theorem case in the block defines the relation strengthen for the canonical forms that were not covered in the previous attempt.
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recall attempt
Scoring the articles, adjectives, and possessives for agreement with the accompanying noun in the recall attempt made little difference except in the case of adjectives.
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renewed attempt
There should be a renewed attempt to secure a revised form of procedure, and we should make a desperate attempt to end the arms race.
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repeated attempt
At the repeated attempt to tear apart the initiative itself, the corps took part in no more.
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rushing attempt
During his rookie year he only recorded 1 rushing attempt during 16 games during the regular season.
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sincere attempt
Alfano's sincere attempt, which occupied him for only about six months, has become his best-known accomplishment, sentencing him to eternity as a footnote to another composer's career.
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subsequent attempt
A subsequent attempt to replicate these results in a different population (which controlled for at least three key sources of confound) produced negative results.
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successive attempt
After each successive attempt to find the right answer, he has found that his previous answer was wrong.
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systematic attempt
What is needed is a systematic attempt to engage the views of citizens, to balance those of the specific interest groups.
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unsuccessful attempt
An unsuccessful attempt to develop a single item screen f or insomnia in cancer patients.
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valiant attempt
The editors have made a valiant attempt to pull together an eclectic mix of information.
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