Last April, the government made a vain attempt to ban gatherings on the avenue, causing more violent clashes.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] BarackSIR – Your leader summing up what Barack Obama needs to do "to make a convincing case" for a second term made a vain attempt at balanced analysis, and damned the president with faint praise ("Four more years?", September 1st).
Against the Koreans Zinedine Zidane picked up an injury that kept him out of the first two games, and reduced him to one leg in the last match when France made a vain attempt to stay alive in the competition.
Rodriguez might be making a vain attempt to rebuild his tattered baseball legacy, but he shouldn't be compared to killers.
The squadron never reached Egypt, diverting to Toulon under British pressure and separating, the most seaworthy vessels making a vain attempt to Egypt later in the year while the remainder were left at Toulon.
By degrees, however, Justinian came to understand that the formula at issue not only appeared orthodox, but might also serve as a conciliatory measure toward the Monophysites, and he made a vain attempt to do this in the religious conference with the followers of Severus of Antioch in 533.
The drugs have been made illegal in a vain attempt to stop kids using them, but people haven't thought about the negative consequences".
When Knight finished his film, Issa gave him a list of names he wanted put on the credits – people who had had nothing to do with the film – in a vain attempt to make the false paperwork tally with the new film.
The first act curtain, a vain attempt to make everyone do the conga, is a little embarrassing.
"If John Prescott has the nerve to turn up at events like the Brit Awards in a vain attempt to make Labour seem cool and trendy, then he deserves all we can throw at him," they said.
Before we can join Elvis in remembering how he used to rub "mentholated spirit" into his chin in a vain attempt to make his beard grow, we must be told that "just like the kola nut, people have distinct lobes of energy".
