"Govermor Brown is attempting to get 10 percent reductions in numerous departments.
Now Major League Baseball is attempting to get umpires on the same page by clumsily monitoring pitch counts.
Meanwhile, another team is attempting to get its refined model to run a test race course in 12 seconds.
With this year's Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, Hollywood is attempting to get down and dirty with real people and real problems.
Now Najib is attempting to get China to cover that loss surreptitiously and in the process probably selling out his country over its rights in its own exclusive economic zone.
Sanchez, entering his third season, is attempting to get comfortable with two new receivers — Derrick Mason and the former Giant Plaxico Burress — and he looked jumpy at times in the pocket.
"By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation," said Ilkka Rahnasto, vice president for legal and intellectual property at Nokia.
Delanty is spending her first lunchtime at the centre following a morning in court, where she is attempting to get an apprehended violence order against a former partner, who she says regularly tried to strangle her.
Their 36-year-old daughter, they tell me, is attempting to get on the property ladder and finding it extremely difficult; they are about to help her get her deposit together.
The Washington senator Patty Murray is attempting to get support for a new federal proposal that would increase the minimum wage to $8 in 2016 and then increase it by another dollar each year until it reaches $12 in 2020.
