Our attempt to be an intimate family has foundered!

We started with committee structure those attempts have foundered on intransigence over the whole nature of a review process.

That attempt, however, foundered in February on the deep animosities between the two men.

But that attempt foundered in October when the group could not get the financing.

Several other recent attempts by mutual banks to convert to public ownership have foundered.

The effort failed and then other attempts also foundered.

But the attempt to reunite the city has foundered on an ugly reality.

Other attempts to cut costs by being more efficient have also foundered.

Indeed, other attempts to forge integration have foundered on market realities.

The first attempt to establish a "presidential government" had occurred in 1926-1927, but foundered for lack of political support.