After a failed attempt by the French to arrest these groups, people broke out.

This was yet another example of a failed attempt to generate jobs through tax cuts.

After a failed attempt to start a normal school, he turned his attention to establishing the state's first junior college.

It was successfully incorporated as a town in 1834, following a failed attempt three years earlier.

He said a postdoctoral student might have spent seven or eight months on a failed attempt.

He later explained it as a failed attempt at humor.

As a failed attempt at doing this, the "Zone" was created.

I had arrived four hours earlier, after a failed attempt to sleep.

Yes, as evidenced by the failed attempt above, trying to be funny is serious business.

They'll not risk losing the key in a failed attempt.