"We're attempting to demonstrate that New York isn't anybody's town.
Now, the company's scientists are attempting to demonstrate the fundamentally quantum-mechanical nature of their device.
Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, told reporters last month, "North Korea is attempting to demonstrate an ICBM capability through a space launch".
Meanwhile, in Washington, the Democratic leadership was attempting to demonstrate that Mr. Gramm had been punished for breaking his word, not for his conservatism.
It still isn't clear how that happened or what precisely Alexander was attempting to demonstrate about gun safety in his class on the administration of justice.
It struck him, too late, that he was attempting to demonstrate that he wasn't a man from the moon by detailing the moon's topology, cataloguing its hollows.
By making devolution dependent upon their being an elected mayor with oversight over new combined authorities, the government is attempting to demonstrate a sort of democratic legitimacy built into its devolution agenda.
The Information Awareness Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is attempting to demonstrate that private databases can safely be plumbed if the day comes when privacy laws are changed to allow access to them (see "Total Information Overload," TR July/August 2003).
Griffin found that the tether transactions coincided with bitcoin prices that were multiples of 500, indicating that manipulators may have been attempting to demonstrate a price floor, a benchmark of support, stabilizing the price of bitcoin.
The senior executive of a new startup bank is attempting to demonstrate the difference between the incumbent high street banks (the boring Y-fronts) and the "speed not comfort" approach of Atom, a new digital operation which is planning to open its virtual doors later this year.
