However,he was unsuccessful in an attempt to buy Cuba from Spain.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Both American Airlines and Delta have offered significant financial support in an attempt to woo the company into an alliance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Protesters gathered on the Capitol lawn during the debate, yelling in an attempt to make their own voices heard.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

In an attempt to blunt the criticism, President Karzai just announced the creation of a new anti-corruption unit.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

The Pakistani army entered the South Waziristan tribal region last Saturday from three different areas in an attempt to completely surround the Taliban fighters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Israel established the commission in an attempt to appease international outrage about the incident.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

She says she will appeal to a St.Petersburg court to challenge the working conditions in the city's metro stations, in an attempt to make conditions more suitable for women.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

it wasn't a real effort to seek the truth,". Israel launched its offensive against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers in an attempt to halt years of rocket fire at Israeli towns.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

While President Nimeiri had initially cracked down on Islamic activists, by 1983 he had embraced Islamism in an attempt to boost his popularity, which had suffered along with the country's economy.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

In an attempt to show they are serious about supporting a solution to the protracted Cyprus problem, Britain has renewed an offer to cede about half the territory of its bases in Cyprus.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

In an attempt to regain political momentum in the health-care debate, Mr.Obama told a town hall in New Hampshire that Republicans are hoping to kill the reform effort this year like they did in 1993 and 1994 under former President Bill Clinton.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

But it was also an attempt to establish a top professional level for soccer in America.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

If an attempt is made to put more men in Fort Sumter, a war cry will be sounded from every hilltop and valley in the South."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Speaking to supporters in the village of Teyit, Mr.Bakiyev, said there is an attempt to divide the country between north and south.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

He is also believed to have been involved in a botched attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter jet leaving the Mombasa airport the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Witnesses say the Taliban allowed villagers to drain the tankers after the vehicles became stuck in the mud during an attempt to drive them across a river.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The toads are native to the Americas. They were brought to Queensland in the 1930s in an unsuccessful attempt to eradicate beetles that were destroying sugar cane plantations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

The vote,which has been postponed several times since 2005, is an attempt to find a lasting political solution to nearly a decade of internal conflict in the once stable West African nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

(Music) Google is making changes to the way it handles news content, in an apparent attempt to appease news providers who claim the Internet search giant is undermining their ability to charge subscribers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

But his outreach to the Muslim world, and especially his landmark speech in Cairo in June, are seen by many Israelis as an attempt to appease the Arabs at the expense of the Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29