An attempt to get Mr Reeves' diseased remaining kidney to work was also doomed.
Given the cost of building ever larger sea walls, there is an attempt to harness Nature's own defences.
It could be an attempt to play to the country's powerful military, to win its support.
Playing football with drug addicts is presumably an attempt to entice them towards healthier habits.
The move would be an attempt by Microsoft to make itself relevant in the consumer Internet.
But Germany's focus on discipline is arguably an attempt to fix a democratic deficit.
Police also think an attempt was made to push a second pony into the water.
But, back in Canada, an attempt at collaborative filmmaking with some friends came to nothing.
Last month Microsoft shook up its top ranks in an attempt to become faster and leaner.
They took him hostage in an attempt to give a human face to the company.
Detectives have been reviewing CCTV footage of the area in an attempt to trace her movements.
The car free experiment is an attempt to cut the congestion and the resulting carbon emissions.
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The MP stayed away from the Conservative Party conference in an attempt to defuse the row.
In other words, it was an attempt to enforce norms of international behaviour by treaty.
The Cornish call this "Devonwall" politics - an attempt by Devon to hi-jack Cornish identity.
In an attempt to preserve objectivity, victims were identified only by number or letter.
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Macro hedge funds use tactical asset allocation strategies in an attempt to bet the markets.
Guinness World Records said it takes up to six weeks to verify an attempt.
Initially we do this under the chargeback scheme in an attempt to recover the funds.
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The fire was an attempt to frame her in order to win custody of them.
He and his kind are destroying our country just in an attempt to remain in power.
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Mr Musharraf had already failed in an attempt to stand in three other seats.
You can work harder and perform better in an attempt to get a promotion.
Just an attempt to get a better price, with no wrongdoing involved, said the government.
Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable.
There is also an attempt among other Shiite politicians to isolate Sadr, despite Maliki's support.
You answer is of course an attempt at irony but it was not ironic at all.
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In the mid-thirties, Hanwell Snr went to Canada, an attempt to make his fortune in logging.
The Haitian army was abolished in 1995 in an attempt to get it out of politics.
Both parties said the ban was an attempt by Labour to "gerrymander" assembly elections.
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