This past year, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill)., attempted to attach an amendment to the Credit CARD Act of 2009 that would have prohibited credit card companies from taking action against retailers who offered reduced prices to customers paying with cash, checks or debit cards instead of credit cards.
The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the random drift of human affairs to some sort of unknowable but glimpsable divine motion, attempting to attach a certain grandeur to it, the delusion of meaning.
Members of Congress are attempting to attach a bill to a trans-Atlantic trade deal to block European governments from requiring the special labelling of goods produced in illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Family life has always been punctuated by periods when Frank has been absent, staging protests around the world, so when he left home on 2 September – having explained that he would be away for a few weeks, sailing on the Arctic Sunrise to international waters north of Russia, to attempt to attach a protest pod of protesters to the side of a Gazprom oil rig – Nina wasn't unduly concerned.
Brownback now plans to attempt to attach a moratorium and other portions of his bill--such as language barring patents on certain cloning techniques--to unrelated bills being considered by the Senate.
It attempts to attach a dollar figure to the value of the time devoted to anything talked about or shown on a broadcast entity.
The Republican leader's office is attempting to attach a policy rider to the omnibus bill that would effectively end limits imposed on coordinated spending by federal candidates and political party committees.
To account for this, SLiM discovery tools attempt to attach a score that indicates how unlikely a given motif is compared to other motifs in a dataset, either through an explicit heuristic [8] or by an empirical estimate [7].
Therefore, instead of attempting to attach a numerical value to the probability of treatment success, we will design an algorithm which allows us to select the best drug combination which maximizes the chances of successful treatment, while keeping the number and concentration of drugs as low as possible.
It does not attempt to attach a probability or likelihood to a parameter value given the data as likelihood and Bayesian techniques would, nor does it attempt to optimize a formal fitting function as would a genetic algorithm.
