But it can also lead to unprecedented attempts to embrace American ideals, even if they are never thought of as explicitly American.
The Sept. 11 fund is an unprecedented attempt to help victims of crime rebuild their lives.
He is also famous for his unprecedented attempt at ollieing a twenty-five stair in France.
"This represents an unprecedented and unacceptable attempt to micromanage the decennial census," the White House said today in a policy statement.
A keen student of history, he made an unprecedented attempt to write a novel on the political developments and social conditions of Sindh in the post-Samma period.
TRPA and its mission are one-of-a-kind and represent an unprecedented attempt to address environmental, economic and cultural values at both regional and local levels.
One is that this unprecedented attempt to revive Vaslav Nijinsky's lost choreography succeeds in revealing the full meaning of the ballet.
This appeared to be an unprecedented attempt at communication.
The idea, then, that national governments should be allowed to control the European Parliament is an unprecedented attempt to weaken this Parliament.
Additionally, Green made a controversial decision during the primary to support Giuliani's unprecedented attempt to extend his own mayoral term, in the name of the emergency of 9/11.