It was a dissertation on immortality, attempting by scientific arguments to prove its impossibility.

Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan's threats.

Mr Caldwell is attempting by way of judicial review to stop the tribunal's Carrickmines 2 module which began on Tuesday.

Yet even Putin did not try to quell dissent to the extent that Ilham Aliyev is attempting by banning international reporters.

This was the practice of attempting by law to protect the inhabitants of one country by shutting out the goods of all others.

That subjects or foreigners, attempting by force on the properties of any people, may be resisted with force, is agreed on all hands.