"Right now, it's like looking at the chassis of a truck," Dr. Smith said of preliminary attempts to classify the type of ship.

The card must have been lost from the Judge's vest-pocket in his preliminary attempt to gain access by the main entrance of the house.

A preliminary attempt to develop a science of 'geocybernetics' has been made in a little-known paper by Polonskiy (1963).

"It was the mayor who wished the preliminary attempt at compromise, not I. Witness that I did not try too hard."

It was more of preliminary attempt to find out what had happened over the Bering Sea.

It was a preliminary attempt by the military to help overcome the ethnic tensions that threaten to pull the area apart as the sides seek to settle old scores.

However, this attempt was largely unsuccessful as preliminary attempts for automation resulted in misinformation.

The new legislators were making some preliminary attempts to decorate their new digs.

Criteria for an effective theory of consciousness and some preliminary attempts.