The UN also took up the problem of defining aggression, a task attempted unsuccessfully by the League of Nations.
The group strives to relieve the humanitarian crisis along the border, a daunting task attempted through cooperation with other NGOs, petitions to Homeland Security, researching and documenting abuse of migrants at the hands of Border Patrol, and directly supporting those who attempt the deadly journey from Mexico to the United States. .
The Bibliography was an enormous task, attempting "… to include every published scientific work that mentioned vertebrate fossils.
When his food was digested, he usually returned to his primary daytime task — attempting to break out of the back yard.
It's an utterly ridiculous task, attempting to graft a storyline onto a highlight reel of an expansive oeuvre.
Navigating the ins and outs of an open relationship can be a difficult task, attempting to determine the actors, settings and moods involved in the sometimes uncertain arrangements.
For this particular session, he was putting his supernatural gift to a new task, attempting something that, to his knowledge, no medium had ever before attempted: asking dead people what the scariest Halloween costume is.
We conclude that while satellite remote sensing has often been discounted as inadequate for the task, attempts to map AGB without satellite imagery are insufficient.
During the assembly, the coach explains the day's training task, attempts to motivate children and introduces contents related to health behaviour based on behaviour change strategies.
Rather, the ADHD children appeared to have a specific deficit in monitoring their ongoing behaviors and generating useful strategies for task completion, as indicated by the decreased number of tasks attempted compared to the control group.
They engaged, on average, in just over 40 discreet "tasks" — test-related behaviors that had a definable start and end time — spending approximately 36 seconds on each, in contrast to the 48 to 50 average tasks attempted by the other groups — with an average of only 30 seconds spent per activity.
