1.   Colonel Calderon tried to dispel their fears and to persuade them that no attempt on their lives was contemplated.

2.   I did not leave until after his third murder attempt on me and still I believed in a reconciliation.

3.   It was the scene of a failed assassination attempt on the royal couple at a charity concert nine years ago.

4.   Kirkus also made a solo attempt on the line now known as Nameless, retreating from its final pitch.

5.   She has already survived two attempts on her life.

6.   The assassination attempt on his life had been thwarted and his master plan on the Continent was going exactly to plan.

7.   The extradition attempts on charges of obstruction of justice failed primarily because of allegations of the torture of witnesses.

8.   There had been no attempts on the jewels, which remained unmolested in their wooden chest.

9.   We want to set up an attempt on the life of the President.