But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The last thing you want is to have the other firm undercut you, in an attempt to push prices down.

你最不想看到别的企业,通过降价来打压你

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This was my best attempt at hitting zero and not having the graph go down there.

这是我最好的尝试,使它接近零但又不掉下去。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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.

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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.

FORBES

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).

BBC: Press regulation: it's back