• The Obama campaign decided more than a year ago to define Mr. Romney early, on its terms, in an attempt to make the election at least in part a referendum on him and his business record rather than what most re-election campaigns tend to be, which is a referendum on the incumbent.

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  • All this suggests it would be an abdication of moral duty if human beings did not at least make the attempt.

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  • Mr Burbank has been railing at any attempt to make cops enforce immigration laws.

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  • Please -- tell me that Mr. Noer's article on why career women don't make good wives is simply a failed attempt at journalistic parody.

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  • Exelixis is still an early-stage drug company--though it is one of the best--and Renovis, his last effort, was best known for a very innovative attempt at a stroke drug that did not make it.

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  • Exelixis (nasdaq: EXEL - news - people ) is still an early-stage drug company--though it is one of the best--and Renovis (nasdaq: RNVS - news - people ), his last effort, was best known for a very innovative attempt at a stroke drug that did not make it.

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  • When a police supervisor was unsatisfied with his detective's first attempt at a whitewash, he rewrote it to make it smoother.

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  • He was granted bail on condition that he reside at an undisclosed address and that he make no attempt to contact Ferguson or any potential other witnesses.

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  • Later this year a rocket incorporating the new motor will make an attempt on the UK rocket altitude record, which stands at 10, 540 m (34, 579 ft) and is held by the Mars group.

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  • "You can go with the gadfly--or at least make noises like you are--and attempt to shake up the board and get them to act, " he says.

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  • There are a lot of statistics, figures and charts in the report, yet there is no attempt at an explanation as to why women specifically would make startups more successful.

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  • However, his party was not satisfied with that promise alone so they have demanded a law, or at least an attempt to pass a law, to make it happen.

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  • The couple had decided to make a last-ditch attempt to save their stormy marriage during a family Christmas at their home.

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  • It is a passion of mine and a privilege to work with the Somali-American community in central Ohio as well as the community at large while working toward cooperation and understanding as we attempt to make a home for ourselves here in the United States.

    WHITEHOUSE: Champions of Change Blog

  • It promised a great deal more than it delivered, and any serious attempt to make the euro zone more competitive would revisit the Lisbon goals and make sure they were met at the second time of asking.

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  • Political science, at its core, is most interested in understanding how people collectively make decisions, and as researchers we attempt to build models and collect data to that end.

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