His downfall was his audacious attempt, begun in 2005, to acquire Volkswagen via stock derivatives.
In the 1950s, however, when nuclear power plants were first built, an attempt began to find a bright side to the atom.
Collins's first literary attempt, begun when he was twenty, was a lurid tale with hints of human sacrifice set in Tahiti, which went unpublished.
Early Saturday, soldiers surrendered on a bridge that traverses the Bosporus, one of two bridges that the military shut down as the coup attempt began Friday evening.
Testimony in the trial of two men accused of murdering a police officer during a botched robbery attempt began on Monday with accounts from two officers who were present when their colleague, Officer Peter J. Figoski, was killed.
The young man and his attackers had been riding in the rear car of a northbound A train from Far Rockaway, where the robbery attempt began, the police said.
The Oxford Movement — John Henry Newman's attempt, beginning in the eighteen-twenties, to restore quasi-Roman ritual and a sense of supernatural authority to the prosaic Church of England — had colored the elder Dodgson's life.
A fresh attempt began earlier today, mediated by an agency of the Chilean government, an ALMA source tells ScienceInsider.
The first attempt began in the Black Hills of South Dakota and ended outside Hampton, New Brunswick 1800 mile later.
