Sentence examples for various failed attempts from inspiring English sources

I enjoyed Jill Lepore's brief history of the various failed attempts to enact national health insurance (The Talk of the Town, December 7th).

The development of a sequel to Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi thriller started in 1999 with various failed attempts in the years since.

Biased courts and an establishment set on shaping election results underscores how its institutions are not properly independent yet.But at least a run-off on November 16th produced an elected president, after various failed attempts.

Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom marries his pregnant girlfriend, stays with her dutifully after various failed attempts at escape to a life of more immediate gratifications, and then has the ironic sense, as the books go on, that he is the only one in America still sticking to the old self-imprisoning norms.

Microsoft has blown through $600 million on various failed attempts at interactive television such as WebTV and UltimateTV.

But the theft of the iPhone UI — for no good reason — coupled with the shoddy manufacturing, the various failed attempts and "value-added" applications, and a general unsuitability to any task makes me want to puke.

Failed attempts in various sports eventually lead him to ski jumping, because a) the Brits haven't fielded a ski jumper at the international level in decades, so competition is slight and b) Edwards is a kamikaze with no fear of broken bones, so why not?

c Rate includes failed attempts.

Enable data wiping on failed attempts.

One more disappointing failed attempt for Mickelson.

In the case of strongly electron rich R substituents, various attempts failed to afford the desired cycloadducts.