0 present participle of attempt --
1 to try to do something, especially something difficult: --
There's no point in even attempting an explanation - he'll never listen.
[ + to infinitive ] He attempted to escape through a window.
And he was not alone in recognizing the perils of attempting it.
Before even attempting to answer this question it has to be clarified that explanatory success is always limited and provisional.
Although there are practical and ethical challenges to consider before attempting such protocols with children and adolescents with bipolar disorder, the potential yield is great.
Rather than attempting to disentangle ideology from interests, the strategy adopted here is to examine the overlap between these two causal agents.
The two maps of the monarchy included in the first pages are of little assistance to the reader attempting to digest this mass of material.
However, the children were given verbal encouragement for attempting a target sentence.
What emerges from all these studies is apt to be broad agreement on what eighteenth-century historians were attempting.
Rather than attempting uniform area-wide, inundative releases of sterile males, it may be more cost-effective to preferentially target aggregated populations associated with livestock.
