I couldn't quite square my incomplete attempts to bring Guzmán vividly to life on the page with my attempts at reimagining my own life.
BAGHDAD — After years of vicious fighting among Iraq's fractious groups and some incomplete attempts at reconciliation, a ceremony here on Saturday marked a tiny step forward, at least symbolically.
The dramatic result from a relatively straightforward approach comes after years of unsuccessful or incomplete attempts, and it leaves some researchers wary about whether it can be replicated.
The first pass in Revis's direction came with a little more than one minute remaining in the first half, an incomplete attempt intended for T. J. Houshmandzadeh.
It's also a tragicomic biography of Raymer's misfit-math-whiz boss-slash-father figures: first Dink, and then — after an incomplete attempt to leave gambling for, well, boxing — Bernard Rose of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., a manic raconteur with a Rabelaisian appetite for garlic knots and pedicures.
Even his incomplete attempt broke a record: No one had ever swam the entire length of the canal, let alone two-thirds of a mile.
In combination with the increased expression of the tRNA synthetases, MARS, LARS and RARS it would appear that a substantial yet incomplete attempt was made to promote muscle protein synthesis, similar to that observed for the mitochondria.
Because of the lack of blood supply and subsequent wound-healing response, damage to cartilage alone, or chondral lesions, results in an incomplete attempt at repair by local chondrocytes.
"The symbol sets us thinking," in Ricoeur's famous phrase: we were not so much the creators of our symbols as their creatures, and philosophy was our ever-incomplete attempt to discern their multiple meanings.
All completed calls and incomplete call attempts were assumed to require an additional 5 min of record review and preparation before each call.
The number of incomplete call attempts was estimated from a random sample and stratified on the number of completed calls, based on paper work logs recording this activity.
