11.   Previous attempts to learn Russian foundered on laziness.

12.   Two previous attempts to shut down the school and transfer the pupils to Coldingham were successfully resisted.

13.   Amir has already confessed to the assassination in court and has re-enacted it before police cameras, and Monday he acknowledged the previous attempts to kill Rabin.

14.   And its previous attempts to form a trusted cadre of Mexican officers also began with enthusiasm, but failed miserably.

15.   And though he had vetoed two previous Republican attempts to redo welfare, his advisers believed a third veto would become too big a political liability.

16.   At least two previous attempts by upstate winemakers to drop anchor in New York City failed.

17.   Benes helped keep the rally alive and loaded the bases for White by beating out a perfect two-strike bunt after whiffing on two previous attempts.

18.   A final contradiction upon which previous attempts to change the welfare system have become snagged involved the relationship between federal and state requirements.

19.   A key ingredient in this recovery that was missing from the previous two attempts is rising capital investment.

20.   A new study based on Justice Department data points to weaknesses in previous attempts to stop terrorism.