In Palm Beach and Broward Counties, Harris effectively shut down attempt to conduct manual recount the votes there when her office issued a ruling that "a counting error" means that a machine fails to read a properly marked ballot.
Last fall, he shut down an attempt by fellow Republicans to de-fund his state's infamous "bridge to nowhere"--a proposed piece of pork that would connect two barely populated towns--by threatening to resign.
So it is quite possible to imagine a rainbow coalition across the parties voting down any attempt to kill the Puttnam amendment. (Remember the Coalition agreement between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems doesn't cover this issue, so a break in collective responsibility would be possible - although every breach of this kind adds to Coalition tensions).
The wording has already been watered down in an apparent attempt to overcome Russian objections.
The BBC apologized to McAlpine, and now Entwistle has underscored the gesture by stepping down in the ultimate attempt to limit the damage.
Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has publicly insisted Babel is not for sale and turned down Ajax's attempt to take him on loan in January 2009.
But at least it shows that Republicans and Democrats can still sit down together in an attempt to tackle the big challenges facing our nation.
And, when Armitage won the race to collect a charged-down drop-goal attempt, Lennard added the extras to make it 27-0 with just 13 minutes left.
Yeung said the company has been working to manage down inventory in an attempt to improve gross margins during the slowdown and will continue cost-cutting actions.
But maybe you want to put a little more elbow grease into it, maybe you want to take a look at that sector, dig down into it and attempt to find stocks that appeal to you that way.
Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
"This is an attempt to slow down the process and kill our financing, " he said.
They recall his mother's life-long objections to any attempt to track down the lost P-38.
Mr Putin's absence from Russia is - perhaps - an attempt to play down the whole occasion.
His clearing attempt was knocked down by New York forward Taylor Pyatt, who moved the puck to Hagelin.
David Cameron has brought forward the debate in an attempt to face down a backbench rebellion over the issue.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System struck down Marriott International's attempt to set up a dual stock system in 1998.
For them, an eleventh-hour attempt to pay down debt won't stop their card companies from paring down their credit limit anyway.
Ricketts, 29, had to be carried off on a stretcher after going to ground in an attempt to close down Victor Moses.
Already peeved at the government's early attempt to shut down German nuclear-power stations, German utilities have responded with threats of their own.
Police have stopped motorists in Guildford in an attempt to track down a man who attacked a father and left him with serious head injuries.
At the third attempt Tiatia touched down as the home pack was marched back across their own line for the Ospreys' bonus-point try, Hook converting.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, would have to choose whether to attempt to shoot down the missile, a technically complicated procedure with no guarantee of success.
All this may be blocking the attempt to bring down record-high unemployment, revitalise the economy and fit Germany into the harness of a single European currency.
The MPA which represents a number of movie studios including Warner, Disney and Fox, launched the legal action as a last-ditch attempt to close down Newzbin 2.
For example, an attempt to bring down Zia's jet with a surface-to-air missile in 1982 is bungled because the would-be assassin has never used the weapon before.
Also lost in this desperate attempt to tamp down the tantrums is the absurd premise that legal culpability for a bad act can be shifted to a third party.
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The concept is simple: the cheese is rolled down a hill and runners attempt to catch it, which is no mean feat as the wheel can reach speeds of up to 70mph.
The campaign, which launched last week and finishes on 28 February, is the store's attempt to turn down the white noise on modern living through meditation, silence and an awareness of loud branding.
In 2008, the city switched to a standardized, test-based admissions system in an attempt to cut down on favoritism that it said existed in the previous system, which allowed different districts to set their own rules.
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