11.   So inevitably this first stab at controlling biological weapons, even though seven years in the making, had real flaws.

12.   Some videotapes of these candidates making their first stabs at teaching were also included.

13.   The writing was on the wall, and Durwood made his first stab at saving Downtown.

14.   These steps constitute a good first stab at deflecting the pervasive influence of special interests in Albany.

15.   This is not the first stab at selling online art.

16.   Carter took her first stab at a singing career as a teen-ager, with the help of her father.

17.   EU finance ministers will take a first stab at the farm proposal Monday when they hold a regular monthly meeting in Brussels.

18.   The sale of PASAR, one of the largest copper smelting plants in Asia, marks the first stab at privatization by the administration of Philippine President Joseph Estrada.