And it includes an ambitious attempt to describe and fix the international reserve system.

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Just in case you thought this was an ambitious attempt to illuminate with flashing insights in the night.

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Explaining Religion is an ambitious attempt to do this.

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Windows 8 was an ambitious attempt to update the personal computer for the tablet era by moving to a new touchscreen interface based on colourful tiles, hiding the "desktop" launch screen familiar to white collar workers and consumers around the world.

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But it was the Maori who came closest to scoring a fifth try after another strong McAlister thrust, and Delon Armitage was wide with an ambitious long-range penalty attempt.

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In an ambitious, if flawed, attempt to secure a modicum of justice, the attorney-general's office has so far obtained confessions by 158 former paramilitaries to 4, 300 crimes, and identified some 40, 000 victims who are supposed to be compensated.

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Dr Rosling loves to stitch hundreds of such seemingly disparate details into larger narratives, and his next project is his most sweeping and ambitious yet: an attempt to use statistics and data visualisation to explain the entire world from 1800 to 2050.

ECONOMIST: Brain scan

Prior rejected the idea Al Thani could have run out of cash, suggesting his lack of investment could be an attempt to push through his ambitious building projects.

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