There have been periodic attempts to overhaul this document, and all have failed.

But periodic attempts to make the change through constitutional amendment have failed.

There have been periodic attempts by Congress to restrict the stabilization fund.

He said periodic attempts by the Government to disarm the scores of private armies around the country had had little success.

There were periodic attempts at revival but none achieved much success.

The Legislature is now considering the latest of many periodic attempts to ban it.

I was with about a dozen reporters and photographers covering one of Haiti's periodic attempts at democracy.

Despite periodic attempts at improving the service, the quality of the butter remained exceptionally poor.

It might be waging one of its periodic attempts to crush the human spirit by holding a fund-raising marathon.

And I've made periodic attempts to get to know the river better, with mixed results.