"The human animal responds to the illusion of scarcity with frenetic attempts to be first on line, whether for food, housing, concert tickets or admission to Harvard," Ms. Vail continued.

The Conservative side had split into two factions, the Historical and National, in a frenetic attempt to bring order to the country.

As for the fact that there have been so many announcements in such a short time, Ms. Stewart said this was not a "frenetic" attempt to jump-start the stock price, which closed at $20.65 yesterday.

First came Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge," a lush and frenetic attempt to resuscitate the movie musical by mixing contemporary songs with a Belle Époque setting.

There was something grotesquely amusing in that; the frenetic attempt to sell papers while the world died.

The possibility of a second war in Croatia after the one that erupted when Zagreb seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991 has led to frenetic attempts to ease tensions.

Their graceful and disciplined schooling strategies of uniform spacing and polarity degrade into frenetic attempts by each fish to save itself.

The twin engines on Santoro's boat coughed and sputtered, flooded by the smuggler's frenetic attempts to gun them.

Often, in the wake of the rationalization and the frenetic attempts to increase productivity of recent years, labour has been casualized in various ways.

"My Big Fat Independent Movie" is a frenetic attempt to spoof every major art-house film of the last decade.