1.   The request was first submitted a number of months ago, but all attempts through the usual channels have failed.

2.   How does one raise funds without losing your hair in the attempt through worry.

3.   In half a dozen or more appeal attempts down through the years, Pratt insistently maintained his innocence.

4.   She ducks the assassination attempts through an endless streak of lucky breaks and the ineptitude of the killers.

5.   Some cynics even depreciate his work with land-mine survivors as an ongoing public relations ploy, an attempt through good works to recover a good name.

6.   The Dodgers had six stolen bases in seven attempts through their first two games.

7.   The work will provide the spacecraft with enough power for launch attempts through Thursday.

8.   The Koreans converted all their four attempts through Shin Seok Kyo, Yoo Myung Keun, Kim Yong Bae and Jeong Jeon.

9.   The last legal attempts through the courts to prevent the transfer of the material were then exhausted Friday.