After a first attempt fails, many will never repeat the effort.
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The Progress 47 successfully completed the docking test on its second try, after a first attempt on July 23 was prematurely aborted due to a technical glitch.
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The image wasn't perfect (expected for a first attempt), as at certain times the signal would wig out and at others -- when the ball moved fast enough -- it got fuzzy.
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That lets customers register for free alert via email, text, or phone a day before a first delivery attempt.
Irwin missed the conversion and a first half penalty attempt but made up for that by scoring all of his team's second half points.
When a police supervisor was unsatisfied with his detective's first attempt at a whitewash, he rewrote it to make it smoother.
Moreover, they can root customer perceptions of a category by focusing attention on a bold but misguided first attempt at cracking the market (think of the first mobile Internet experience, WAP).
Robinson missed a late penalty attempt but Wasps secured their first win in a month as Bath ran out of time to have a chance of completing a fight-back.
He produced an immaculate deciding leg, opening with a 180 and checking out with a double 18 at the first attempt.
Ivanisevic had accelerated into the opening set, holding his serve with ease and then breaking a nervy Rafter at the first attempt.
Its creators said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.
Ford's first attempt at a genuine four-wheel vehicle, which he called the Quadricycle, used valves adapted from a steam engine and didn't have a reverse gear.
Her first attempt at a comedy show was last year at the Tron in Glasgow and she says she is starting to go "a bit bonkers with adrenaline" as the latest performances come closer.
In later years, there were more warnings about the Home, but Lucy Cole-Hamilton does seem to be the first to make a serious attempt to blow the whistle, according to Margaret Humphreys of the Child Migrants' Trust.
On its website, Virgin Trains warns travellers they will be charged an excess or penalty fare if they board a train without a ticket or attempt to change from standard to first class without a first class ticket.
His first attempt at revenge was a failure, so he hired men from other villages as allies for his next attempt.
Brett Gardner's first attempt at building a custom base-stealing glove didn't go the way he planned.
Its first attempt to clear a path was to get lots of new customers.
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His first attempt to start a traditional top-down charity failed, so he now funds only charities embracing micro-enterprise approaches.
Plaxo was Parker's first attempt at creating a real company--an online service that aimed to keep your address book up to date.
After his second retirement from the game (the first involved a short-lived attempt at professional baseball), Jordan moved into management with the Washington Wizards.
In fact, Ask's focus on answers isn't its first attempt to gain a competitive advantage against Google by methods other than improving its search algorithm.
The release dates for the new products haven't been announced, but Michaluk thinks RIM could make a touchscreen phone available first in an attempt to convert the curious keyboard faithful.
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"Point of No Return, " for instance, chronicled Jonny Copp and Micah Dash (the latter whom I knew) and their attempt to make a first ascent on a peak in China.
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South Korea is expected to make a second attempt to launch its first satellite later Tuesday after aborting a launch last week when a piece of equipment malfunctioned minutes before launch.
The first was a 2-point conversion attempt that could have tied the score 31-31, but failed.
The launch was South Korea's first successful attempt to put a satellite into orbit using its own rocket.
This is not his first attempt: he launched a similar scheme in 1999 to rescue more than 30 big, sickly firms.
In 2008, NICE said patients would not be able to try a second anti-TNF if their first attempt at anti-TNF therapy failed.
The first attempt was withdrawn after a row between Cardiff Bay and Westminster with Welsh MPs worried it would be used to scrap the right to buy.
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