Clearly, he was making an attempt to understand his colleague's feelings in the matter.

To make an attempt to understand and support each other.

Researchers' first attempts to understand what is now called the writing process began in the early 1970s.

In part it seems to be an attempt to understand this one.

This book is not a serious attempt to understand or evaluate an important figure in American politics.

Never mind - any attempt to understand all the details of these changes led only to madness.

Why had they never made any attempt to understand the first thing about him?

Every thought I have is another attempt for me to understand the world.

Yes, it's also an attempt to understand his children, but it becomes one more thing taking him away from them.

And finally driven him out here, where he could at least make an attempt to understand it.

I am attempting to better understand the effects of fatigue on the human body.

I spent half an hour attempting to understand what the makers of that ship had made.

As he attempts to better understand his diagnosis, he's willing to take you right along with him.

Analysis is what learners do when they attempt to understand the rules of the target language.

There are many things you'll have to take for granted without attempting to understand them.

In fact I'm not sure that she even attempted to understand them.

There are two models currently proposed to attempt to understand this process.

These, then, are some aspects of Jack to consider while attempting to understand him.

Modern organizational studies attempt to understand and model these factors.

They did not attempt to understand either its sense or meaning.