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Discover LudwigThe phrase "attempted simply" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an action that was tried in a straightforward or uncomplicated manner. Example: "She attempted simply to explain the concept without using technical jargon."
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Raine, meanwhile, attempted simply to find ways to refresh the well-thumbed lexicon of love – "Francesca's fanny was a glorious irrepressible Afro pompon," he wrote, before turning his attention to "the beautiful blot of her arsehole.
The scoring systems are all quite similar with minor variations, and take into account the frequent diffuse nature of skeletal involvement and the lack of precision if one attempted simply to count individual lesions.
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Thrice in three days this week the Republicans blocked the Democrats' attempts simply to bring banking regulation to the Senate floor for debate.
According to Russell, such attitudes are customarily traced to a wrong view about relations; in arguing for the doctrine of "external relations", Russell was attempting simply to render a world of simple entities coherent again.
"I personally think any attempt simply to treat Kashmir as just another Indian state is not going to work," Mr. Tellis said.
"Any state legislative attempt simply to appoint electors after the fact would appear to be federally pre-empted," the Gore brief argued.
The attempt simply to describe and not judge religious beliefs and practices is often considered to involve epochē that is, the suspension of belief and the "bracketing" of the phenomena under investigation.
At the 2011 world track and field championships in Daegu, South Korea, however, Hooker could not bring himself to jump on three qualifying attempts, simply running under the bar into the landing pit.
At some remote and poorly guarded dig sites, Dr. McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago wrote recently, illicit digging in most cases started as an attempt simply to find something to sell to put food on the table.
Newton's optics and mechanics, Davy's electrolysis experiments and Faraday's games with electromagnetism were all attempts simply to answer fundamental questions about the nature of our world.
But this attempt simply didn't work.
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