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Finding what was, until then, just a theoretical prediction required one of the largest and most complex scientific undertakings ever attempted: the creation of the particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva.
For nearly a century, physicists have
attempted
to merge the competing ideas of the field’s titans, including Wolfgang Pauli, the first physicist to predict the existence of neutrinos (the smallest particles of matter), and Albert Einstein, who explained the curvature of space-time.
Iran’s president at this time was the scholarly moderate Mohammed Khatami, with whom I at one time
attempted
to negotiate a trade and cooperation agreement on behalf of the European Union.
By substituting imports with domestic production, relying on government planning to target priority sectors, and implementing selective trade protection (for example, by imposing tariffs, quotas, and import licensing), they
attempted
to accelerate their transitions from raw-materials suppliers to manufacturing-based economies.
The Bewildered KingdomLONDON – During the three years of political upheaval in the Middle East since the “Arab Spring” began, Saudi Arabia has
attempted
to maintain its dominant status in the region by any means necessary.
The Trump administration
attempted
to convince the Philippines to exclude North Korea from the ASEAN forum, and is pushing Myanmar to suspend its military ties with the country.
Because Magna Carta
attempted
to set limits to political power without grounding these limits in the sovereignty of the people, it demonstrated a problem with which philosophers have grappled for even longer than 800 years.
When comparing Russia and Ukraine, we should play down frequent national characterizations and instead emphasize the key feature: Russia is ahead of Ukraine economically, because it at least
attempted
radical economic reform in 1992.
On September 19, the French researcher Gilles-Eric Séralini
attempted
to fuel public opposition to genetically modified foods by showing the public how GM corn, with and without the pesticide Roundup, caused huge tumors and early death in 200 rats that had consumed it over two years.
Both Shahzad and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian “Underwear Bomber” who
attempted
to detonate explosives on a flight in 2009, studied engineering.
Yet he continued to rise in the ranks of the Trump administration, which has repeatedly
attempted
to obfuscate the issue.
Thus spoke Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi in March 2010, referring to the leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an armed organization that had
attempted
to assassinate his father, Muammar al-Qaddafi, three times in the mid-1990’s.
Yet the general has not been asked – or allowed – to speak in public, fueling speculation about his own role in the
attempted
coup.
As developed-country citizens have become increasingly frustrated with this state of affairs, politicians – in particular, US President Donald Trump – have
attempted
to appease them with immigration restrictions and protectionist trade measures.
Facing accusations that he had transferred nearly $700 million from the state investment fund 1MDB to his personal bank accounts, Prime Minister Najib Razak
attempted
to block news outlets and blogs that reported on the scandal.
Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century EconomyNEW YORK – When the South African government
attempted
to amend its laws in 1997 to avail itself of affordable generic medicines for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, the full legal might of the global pharmaceutical industry bore down on the country, delaying implementation and exacting a human cost.
Talk of impeachment has become ubiquitous, but impeachment shouldn’t be
attempted
– and cannot be politically viable – unless it has a bipartisan basis rooted in the center of the two parties, as was the case with Nixon.
Our Virtual Middle AgesWikipedia , the online encyclopedia, is the most impressive collective intellectual project ever
attempted
– and perhaps achieved.
Was it not incitement when he
attempted
to mobilize Jewish voters earlier this year by warning of “Arabs voting in droves, bussed in by the left.”
Their crimes included, indirectly, the deaths of three of our colleagues – Bob Frasure, Joe Kruzel, and Nelson Drew, who had died when the armored personnel carrier they were in plunged down a ravine as we
attempted
to reach Sarajevo by the only route available, a dangerous dirt road that went through sniper-filled, Serbian-controlled territory.
China’s government under Premier Zhu Rongji
attempted
to resolve the debt problem by putting the SOEs’ bad loans into four state-owned asset-management companies, and most of the small and medium-size loss-making SOEs were privatized.
We think the answer is not likely to be fundamentally different from what we
attempted.
And yet, given the high stakes of the outcome for France and Europe, a first assessment should be
attempted.
The spark that triggered unrest in the Tibetan part of what is now a largely ethnic Han Chinese city is unclear, but occurred somewhere near the Ramoche Temple when Chinese security forces
attempted
to stop a demonstration by monks.
Moreover, there remains a serious risk of terrorist attacks at home, especially as attacks by “lone wolves” – like the killing of 38 tourists in Tunisia in June, or the
attempted
attack in August on a Paris-bound Thalys train – become more prevalent.
FRANKFURT – Since Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was created, no progress toward political unification has been made – or even really
attempted.
Last June, Wade
attempted
what would have amounted to a constitutional coup.
The Turkish government even
attempted
a regional initiative for a peaceful solution to the crisis, an effort no current EU member could have contemplated.
The ministers were in Washington to attend the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, where they
attempted
to thrash out differences and establish common ground before the upcoming summit.
Instead, he
attempted
to reconstruct macroeconomic thought by writing his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, so that the next time a crisis erupted, economists would think about the economy in a different and more productive way than they had between 1929 and 1933.
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