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When we've attempted to apply the brakes in past expansions, we generally ended up skidding into a ditch.

We've hit 100 more free throws than other teams have attempted this year. That's what we try to do. ... It makes a game that's difficult to defend.

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

It was AOL's objective to have both Navigator and Internet Explorer available to its members, allowing them to choose which browser to use, ... Microsoft, on the other hand, attempted to secure exclusive distribution and promotion for Internet Explorer, with no or few exceptions for distribution or promotion of a competitive browser.

What are they thinking about now? The fact that J&J is silent on that speaks volumes about what they had attempted to do before -- just to get a good price.

What happened to this driver, he was robbed, attempted to flee the scene, and he was shot, I believe.

The Rehnquist court ... attempted to restore dual sovereignty and the conception that states have functions that cannot be displaced by the federal government.

Between 8 and 8:30 in the morning, Ms. Campbell was looking for a certain pair of jeans apparently and couldn't find them. She got very upset, and she wanted to know where the jeans were. The jeans were kept upstairs, and when my client attempted to explain this to her, Naomi got more and more angry.

We have demonstrated that the complainant has a penchant for making false allegations of rape or attempted rape. That has been demonstrated.

Officers attempted to keep him from going into the house. At that time a single shot was fired and he was shot in the head.

No such initiative has been attempted in recent much larger white collar financial crime cases where there were allegations of accounting fraud, bankruptcy, thousands of people out of work, billions of dollars lost to investors -- none of which has occurred or is alleged here.

Two staff members on the island attempted to search the area where the missing person was thought to be but had to retreat due to further volcanic activity and the track being impassable with fallen trees and ash.

We had something like 200 more passes than rushes attempted on us last year because no one could run on us. When you look at the stats, it may seem kind of crazy that we're giving up all these passing yards, numbers can lie. We're going to be good against the pass.

The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

That's what we do when there's excessive absences. They tried the home phone number, the father's work number. They attempted to reach the family.

As a result, the tractor-trailer unit attempted to avoid collision with the vehicle, it swerved to the right travel lane and then struck the Tacoma and then tipped over onto its right side,

Although only fairly small numbers of young people identify as belonging to the goth subculture, rates of self-harm and attempted suicide are very high among this group.

They then displayed what turned out to be a BB-hand gun. They did not take any money and it still isn't certain if this was an attempt at a sick joke or an attempted armed robbery.

Even if IM isn't used directly for business purposes, a number of organizations still find it beneficial to provide a standardized IM channel. When IM was emerging, many enterprises attempted to restrict IM use, but found there were administrative advantages to offering a sanctioned and standardized IM portal.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

The peso attempted to breach the 53 level for the first time in over two years. The next target would be for the peso to reach the 52-to-a-dollar level.

We attempted to do some research on who this organization was, but their flyer does not have any contact names or numbers, does not have a website, nothing that we have been able to locate.

We attempted to get (Williams) to come and verify the condition of the deceased,

This was an attempted attack carried out by a suicide bomber. The car went up in flames and killed him.

This attempted fraud must be punished more severely than as if it were simply another rules infraction.

This day, like all days, holds great potential.Everyone deserves breathing space.Anxiety is nothing more than the attempted unification of opposing forces.Don't let your email dictate your priorities.

This increase ... is most likely a result of an increase in the difficulty of stunts being attempted by cheerleaders in recent years as cheerleading has evolved from a school-spirit activity into an activity demanding high levels of gymnastics skill and athleticism.

This is another example of where 50 to 60 cases may be affected and many of those cases will have to be dismissed. Some of these cases are very serious. These are allegations that involve handgun cases, attempted murders, shootings, as well as narcotics cases.

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.

If there is a tie at (7-6) they will then look at the overall misses throughout the entire meet. Moffat had cleared 7-5 on his first attempt, I attempted and missed, therefore if at the next height we both missed he would win based on having no misses I had to clear 7-6 no matter what if I wanted to win, so I was only given two attempts at the following height because of my decision to pass.

I have not attempted to hide from it.

insulted by a campaign that has attempted to amend the Constitution, and in too many states we've seen discriminatory amendments that would deny hospital visitation and domestic partnership legislation.

If we attempted to place sand on the beach now, it would be washed out rather quickly.

The airplane's out-of-trim condition became worse as the crew attempted to diagnose or correct the problem, ... The crew had difficulty controlling the airplane's tendency to pitch nose down. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to (stop) the descent.

The athletic department is launching a fundraiser on a scale that I don't believe has ever been attempted here before. We're serious about raising money that provides scholarships for student athletes, and we believe this campaign will set a foundation to where we can provide scholarship support on an annual basis.

The attempted cover-up failed, and the investigation continues, ... Our investigative committee will continue to aggressively pursue the truth until we are satisfied that a thorough and credible examination of our men's basketball program has been completed.

The attempted murder charge is farcical because the Americans have already said David has never fired a shot at any coalition forces or civilians.

Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.

Its regrettable that the company attempted to illegally export equipment to China that can be used for transporting weapons of mass destruction. I expect a full picture will be revealed through the further investigation.

All of us are stunned by these revelations of an attempted cover-up, ... The good news is that the cover-up didn't work.

The officer first attempted to verbally stop the fight and then tried to physically separate them. The officer was physically struck. To ensure the combatants' safety as well as his own safety, the officer used the means necessary.

Congress has repeatedly attempted to address this serious need and the court yet again opposed these common-sense measures to protect America's children.

It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It would have been good to point out the existing evidence on that topic.

The Corps Of Engineers has attempted to fix the situation under emergency conditions, ... They're not the best conditions, and probably too little, too late.

The federal government has attempted to stonewall the public's right to know, and SLDN is aggressively challenging its decisions. The Bush administration consistently tells the public that surveillance is conducted only on terrorists and Americans communicating with terrorists; yet information obtained by credible media sources indicates that it is also spying on groups that support civil rights, animal rights and the environment. To suggest those groups are terrorists is an act of modern day McCarthyism.

They believe their son was murdered aboard the 'Brilliance of the Seas' and that Royal Caribbean has deliberately attempted to cover up what happened to George, and to portray this to the media and the public as some sort of unfortunate accident.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

In Pennsylvania, this alleged illegal activity forced consumers and government agencies to pay much higher prices for the brand-name, anti-anxiety drug, ... It appears Bristol-Myers Squibb attempted to manipulate federal drug regulations to extend the patent and continue its monopoly on the product.

'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.

I'll tell you his record -- attempted robbery, robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, sale of drugs, and punching someone during a transaction involving the sale of drugs,

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

I have the better part of 1,000 people to attempt to find new counsel for. They?re charged with everything from traffic tickets to attempted murder, and I?m scrambling to help them get other lawyers.

I just looked on the Internet for certain trends and if anything pops out in the games that Michigan State lost. I think when they attempted less than 16 free throws, they lost every game, and they are a great free throw shooting team. I think there was also was a great discrepancy between wins and losses and how their inside player Paul Davis played. When he played well and scored over 18, 19 points, they usually won.

Before this year, she's never attempted a 3-pointer but this season she has hit five or six. When she's open the other players look for her. She's a great kid to have. Tonight she was playing really well. She's so unselfish she usually passes up the shots.

He told me basically that he was pretty sure, real sure that he had the guy that kidnapped my daughter or attempted to kidnap my daughter.

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.

They attempted entry by shooting the lock. We got an audible alarm call, and then they found one slug in the door and one on the ground.

They attempted to put out a fan magazine, but since it wasn't done correctly, no one bought it. There was an unsuccessful Web site and a surplus amount of bonuses set to help Janie and her cohorts.

They attempted to run an insider trading business as a money making machine.

Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.

In 2004 we attempted to meet with the sheriff quarterly and that didn't happen. In 2005, cooperation did improve. ... He met with us monthly and I think that helped.

In adjusting the itinerary for the Zimbabwe tour we have attempted to ensure that international cricket is played in Guyana, as they would have been without cricket with the cancellation of the Test scheduled for Guyana.

Apparently this guy knows the shortcuts very well, ... In each case, he grabbed or attempted to grab women off a shortcut or footpath. That's a heavily treed and vegetated area, and the best line of defense is to stay off the shortcuts and footpaths that go back into the dark little recessed areas.

The court acted like a legislature when it attempted to rewrite the statute.

The 'Honor All Cards' policy says if you're a retailer and you take my credit card, then you have to take my debit card. Then whatever new product I come out with, you're forced to take all of these additional cards. It's a classic tying arrangement. Visa and MasterCard have attempted to monopolize the debit card market, and one of the ways is through these tying arrangements.

The case that we bring today involves nothing less than the brazen attempt to steal the wealth of a sovereign nation, ... The defendants ... attempted to bribe key decision-makers and corrupt the privatization process.

This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.

For centuries people have attempted to find the location of the Garden of Eden, placing it in such divergent places as Florida and Babylonia.

It's used in serious crimes, such as murder, attempted murder, sexual offences, abductions and missing persons where foul play is suspected, internet luring and child pornography,

It's alarming that Broadwater openly attempted to supply misleading information for the safety assessment to our U.S. Coast Guard.

It's alleged that after he left the apartment, a subject approached him, attempted to rob him, which resulted in him shooting the robbery suspect. The subject was dead on arrival of police officers and fire-rescue.

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. (6:00 a.m. GMT). When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

A suicide attacker attempted to enter the police station at 10:30 a.m. When police stopped him, he blew himself up and killed 13 people on the spot besides wounding 13 others.

It's not a documentary. It's a historical fiction. But we have attempted to make the world, the background, the detail of that world as authentic as possible.

That's part of their problem -- they're cowards. I think that he (Plummer) should be charged with attempted murder for risking my life without my knowledge or consent ... I think that what you (BET) are doing should be applauded because I think more than anything there are women out there that are victims. And I think that we need to hold men accountable for their actions.

That just defies all logic and all common sense. When Gov. Bush unveiled his plan to end social promotions in public schools, it was heralded by the national press as a sweeping reform, the most sweeping ever attempted in the country.

It's just as much a violation to be in possession of forbidden doping substances or to have attempted to use them or distributed them to others. All of those are doping violations of the same significance as a positive test.

We sincerely hope that the governor, the Legislature and others who have attempted in the past to justify unconstitutional voucher programs will now embrace public schools.

It was a really ambitious machine that they attempted to build and it was effective in destroying our democracy for quite some time. That is, he and his associates brought themselves down because they attempted to abdicate a lot of the rules of our democracy.

This vast piece of lyric theater, with its attempted fusion of music and ancient drama, has remained between the pages of musical encyclopedias. Often enough, that is where such enterprises ought to stay.

It looks like she attempted suicide, ... She appears to be in good condition. She's just not responding to attempts to wake her up.

This is the most liberal Legislature in the country. I would not be the least bit surprised if it adopted a moratorium or even attempted to rescind the death penalty entirely. But if they do, they'll have a fight on their hands." ()

I attempted to commit suicide after I found out I was pregnant,

I attempted to do everything successfully. It was taxing, but I didn't think about it at the time.

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.

I attempted to liberate some sunglasses from the corner drugstore. It wasn't a good idea. So they came charging out of there with ball-bats. I guess they thought I was a pretty vicious individual.

I attempted to play in Shanghai with an injury that was not fully healed and it set me back substantially.

I attempted to take a required math course during my first semester, dropped the class after having difficulty understanding my professor.

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

I built up an excellent relationship with Jon when I was at Hawthorn and it's no secret we attempted to recruit him once before,

I called her because I wanted it to be modeled a little bit after her because she's such a charismatic person in the field, ... You know, this great-looking woman with lots of blonde hair who really made a big success out of almost anything she's attempted to do.

I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.

I don't want to say we got complacent, We attempted to play hard.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

He (Paris) tells us he got into some waves in a wake. He attempted to steer out of it and in doing so the boat pitched over on its side,

The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959, at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant. And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty member at M.I.T. and, ultimately... travelled to Europe and attempted to gain status there as a refugee.

The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives...