All that turned out to be lies just to terrify us.

Tom was caught stealing money from the cash register.

But the inspection can also be an attempt to extract users' private data.

The project is seen as an effort to provide academic support for self confidence in the Chinese system.

Wang's lawsuit is an attempt to shine light on the story.

This was the first concerted effort towards making Perl 6 a reality.

The SEC rule was an attempt to grant institutional investors this right.

That will not be easy in fact, it could amount to trying to square a circle.

The West s choices attempted to strike a balance between too much and too little.

So the Three Represents is an effort to salvage one party rule.

Is it an attempt of Russian authorities to influence public opinion on the blogosphere?

The emails were an evident attempt to spark enthusiasm for online censorship.

Amnesty International called the detention a shameful attempt to suppress a peaceful dissenting voice from Kashmir.

The courts' actions represent Guatemala's first effort to bring high military officials to trial.

When she was 15, she experienced an episode of severe depression, which culminated in a suicide attempt.

It is as if they were trying to commit suicide by jumping from the basement.

But the Cromwell Society described Mr Crick's suggestion as folly and attempting to rewrite history.

It isn't clear whether this strange combination is a quirk of the bots' code or a deliberate attempt to disguise political intent.

Indeed, her China trip should be seen as an effort to assert leadership across the eurozone.

Trial and error implies the opportunity to err before we try again.

This mouthing behavior, on the right, was really her way of saying to him, Hey, look how big I am!

French central planning attempted to blaze a new path between Communist centralisation and Vichy corporatism.

At the time of its introduction, The APL Machine was likely the fastest APL system available.

Between 1575 and 1587 Medici porcelain from Florence was the first successful attempt to imitate Chinese porcelain.

The Kyoto Protocol represented the international community s attempt to begin to deal with global warming in a fair and efficient way.

The resurgence of Islamism is essentially a quest for a fulfilling identity by an ancient civilization overwhelmed by the challenges of modernity.

The IPCC has produced a good report an attempt to summarize what the world s scientists know about global warming.

Hamas s offensive is not an attempt to draw Israel into a costly invasion that might shake its regime.

Mata Viliame iced the Fijian cake that didn't need icing with another try in the dying moments.

Thabane said he believes he is being targeted due to his attempt to fight corruption in the country.

This was a blow to the prestige of the United States, which was later compounded by the fiasco of attempting to free the hostages by force.

The Miliband race was an extreme example of what might be called counter nepotism the attempt to abstract the politician from all private attachments.

Latin America is watching Lula's attempt to bring a social conscience to modern economic policies with hope and trepidation.

It all smacks of a politically directed attempt by Yanukovich and his supporters to rid themselves of a powerful opponent before the next election.

It all smacks of a politically directed attempt by Yanukovych and his supporters to rid themselves of a powerful opponent before the next election.

But not everyone believes that the epidemic of resignations is solely an attempt to delay local elections for a few more years .

Obama s November trip to Asia was an effort to align US foreign policy priorities with the region s long term importance.

McCain s selection of Palin was an attempt to appeal to these mothers and to pick up votes from women disappointed about Clinton s loss.

These activities raise the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn has many effects a rise in average temperature, a rise in the water level of the oceans, significant changes in the global patterns of rainfall, and an increase in extreme weather events such as hurricanes and droughts.

One can well understand a Turkish policy of trying to defuse tensions with Iran over that country s nuclear program.

Obasanjo s latest move, his proposed National Political Reform Conference in March, is an attempt to steal the opposition s thunder.

It is not likely that northern elites will stand by idly as a fresh attempt is made to take away what they consider a glittering prize.

The new US study is the first systematic attempt to understand the long term consequences of these climatic trends in a single country.

Bandr al Amri and many others accused the Interior Ministry of being behind this attempt ZajeelBird Mobily Spies on the People for that they should be punished and those who ordered them should be punished too, namely the Interior Ministry.

So we ask people, how much should Grace be blamed in this case, which we call a failed attempt to harm?