It wasn't that she made a conscious attempt to appear younger.

"It was a conscious attempt, starting about 20 years ago, by the right to do what we had been doing all along."

It wasn't a conscious attempt to catch her out, though she naturally accused me of that.

"It was a very conscious attempt to put a face on the murdered masses," he said.

Others make conscious attempts to fit into the community.

So any conscious attempt to improve working standards are impossible under this view.

This was a conscious attempt to hold together a wide coalition.

"Across the board, there's been a conscious attempt to deny that we exist."

Further, I would never make a conscious attempt to write some play where "the players happen to be black."

However, a conscious attempt has been made to find a stick to beat a dog.