"A team of doctors, including emergency physicians and cardiologists, attempted to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

And its opposition seems to me to be all together noble for know well men of Athens if I had long ago attempted to be politically active I would long ago have perished and I would benefited neither you nor myself. Now do not be vexed with me when I speak the truth.

而这样的违背在我看起来很高尚,因为可以彻底了解雅典人,如果很早之前,就试图活跃于政治的话,我早就没命了,也就无法造福你们或我自己,不要因为我说出真相而恼火。

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For his part,the president attempted to share the honor with the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

And I consider that totally unacceptable,". The president acknowledged that it might take weeks for investigators to uncover all of the facts related to the attempted attack.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

And that war is against the kind of terrorism that authorities say a Nigerian man attempted when he allegedly tried to bomb a US airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19