The more he thought about it, the less likely another direct attempt at the boy's life seemed.

Considerable losses must have ensued from any direct attempt to force them.

Harry saw in it a direct attempt against himself and his father, or even against the engineer.

It was a direct attempt to get published.

Was this a direct attempt by Lord Foul to lay hands on the ring?

Nothing could be gained through a direct attempt to make a slippery chap like Jarratt show his hand.

That is what a direct attempt against the Borg cube would represent."

"We need to disperse the tweakers and thinkers, in case Earth makes another, more directed attempt to stop us."

The move was a direct attempt to compete with the Timex Corporation.

The thrower may take a direct attempt for a goal which, however, is not feasible if the defending team has organised a defence.

Structural test makes no direct attempt to determine if the overall functionality of the circuit is correct.

The bad club split means that a direct attempt to cash the club queen will fail.

Poppaelia had forestalled any direct attempt to gain military command of the mission.

If necessary, Excelsior's shields might withstand a direct attempt to run the energy gauntlet.

However, a direct attempt to describe such medium leads to the so-called ultraviolet divergences.

The new Beetle is perhaps the most direct attempt to recapture the past, at least as far as the exterior goes.

It appeared that for the time being any direct attempt to help Black Pearl by means of countermagic would have to wait.

This act was a direct attempt to prevent Japanese farmers from owning land and therefore accumulating wealth in their names.

Shortly thereafter the area around the ship is bombarded for several hours, although no direct attempts are made to damage the vessel.

She had doubted him before in their last mission, on Purity, but he had succeeded there, where her more direct attempts could not.

None, moreover, contains any explicit political message, any direct attempt to impart the lessons of history.

As a consequence these factors or characteristics should direct attempts to identify and predict, and hence prevent.

This is the most direct attempt to lure tourists, seducing them with wide eyes and heart-wrenching stories of abandonment.

Any direct attempt to score a ninth trick in spades was due to fail, but Siebert read the cards well.

He made two rather clumsy direct attempts before he de- cided that the frontal approach was useless.