The judge, after a formal attempt to reconcile the differences between the parties, granted the divorce.

Yesterday he made his first formal attempt at a comeback.

However these had not been taken into account till the formal attempt by Hütter.

Two formal, and unsuccessful, attempts were made to reform the constitution.

Not until 1978 was any formal attempt made to investigate the wreck, and its identity has not been absolutely determined.

This department was the first formal attempt to promote serious scholarly inquiry into what most people do with most of their free time.

Other formal attempts at conciliation, including a council set up to foster communication between the police and residents, have met with failure.

The rapporteur can only tell us that the first formal attempt at a definition comes from the Commission.

Since 1870, there have been several formal attempts to restrict the copper output and raise, in this form, its price.

The first formal attempt to apply for a university status took place in 1993.