These attempts at seduction usually start when they are teenagers.

In 2002 started the first serious attempt by the Spanish government to ban the party.

The first attempts to repair the fortifications started around 1900.

I can only suppose that any attempt to suppress it would start a black market.

"But I learned long ago that even given such attempts to start a war, parties can come to peaceful terms."

Any attempt to assess the public share of all party funds may start with the parties' annual reports.

Laura knew that an attempt to start conversation there was hopeless.

The first attempt to design the in-house program started in 2001.

The first attempts to understand dinosaurs may have started thousands of years before they were officially named.

An attempt to build a church started in 1800.