31.   Despite repeated attempts to contact officers at Bona Fide, its management did not return calls.

32.   Despite repeated attempts, Lisovsky could not be reached for comment.

33.   During most of November, U.S. stocks made repeated attempts to break higher, but price gains were largely held in check, as predicted.

34.   Duke resembled a professional team in training, with crisp passes, defenders slicing into the passing lanes and repeated breakaway attempts.

35.   Each program has strong backers in Congress, and most have survived repeated attempts to eliminate them.

36.   For more than a decade, repeated attempts to overhaul banking legislation have collapsed from intense industry in-fighting.

37.   From there they rebuffed repeated attempts to dislodge them.

38.   From a very early date we find repeated attempts at legislation to prohibit upper-class persons from adopting this lifestyle.

39.   George Washington understood that when he rejected repeated attempts to keep him in office indefinitely.

40.   He has managed, with the help of his lawyers, to complicate repeated attempts by investigators to question him in his home.