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He got so frustrated with the same underling's progress on a whitewashing report that he took a stab at it himself.

I had never tried scuba diving before, but I made a stab at it while in Hawaii.

If it does seem boring and droll, challenge yourself to take a new stab at it.

The Basel club is now making a stab at this task as well as trying to co-ordinate resolution schemes globally.

He made a rough stab at working out the expenses and found out it was costing us40centavos to print one20 - centavo bill.

This method clearly violates this heuristic, so I'm going to take another stab at it, this time using TDD.

I've never bowled before, but I'll take a stab at it.

Previous adaps stretch right back to 1911, and there's been a fresh stab at the material on the screen just about every decade since.

And we give ourselves a week or so to talk about New Year's resolutions-our yearly futile stab at behavior change.

He made a blind stab at answering the question.

To stab at something with or as if with a spear.

Hatoyama has been nicknamed 'the alien' by his party in a gentle stab at his physical appearance.

He made a half-hearted stab at this in 2005, saying he should not be above criticism.

I feel at this point I'd like to have a stab at defining what level of strange Blueberry Garden falls under.

Congress took a stab at the problem last fall with a new law requiring doctors' offices to fill out all Medicare claims.

If they fail, they brush themselves off and take another stab at it until they get it right.

From time to time, some of my readers take a stab at converting me to their religion.

So the IEA has made a brave, though not wholly convincing, stab at providing this in two areas: nuclear power and energy efficiency.

You will never mend your car like that -- let me have a stab at it .

The next fund-raising cycle will determine which European firms get another stab at investing.

This must be a programmer's stab at the system.

And now Google is spending $12. 5 billion to take a stab at the Apple way, without quite giving up the Microsoft way.

As city leaders put it in their first stab at a municipal Olympic motto: "New Beijing, New Olympics" .

I am a newbie homeschooler. . . only 3 months in so far but I still thought I would like to take a stab at answering these.

A draft proposal of new global standards for banking capitalization known as Basel 3 is the first serious stab at this task.

He has learned from his own mistakes (his stab at the governorship in 2002 was a disaster), but also Mr Spitzer's.

It's possible, nonetheless, to take a rough stab at working out the internet's carbon footprint.

Goldman Sachs analysts said a "first stab" at HSBC's potential credit losses in the UAE was just over $600 million.

He has compiled enough information to make a credible stab at recreating the climate of the entire planet.

Last week, Singapore's finance minister took a stab at explaining the divestment, too.

A NUMBER of college students who want to take a stab at business have resorted to opening online shops at Taobao. com.

Now an international group of 29 scientists has taken a preliminary stab at setting some concrete environmental thresholds for the planet.

Luce also takes a stab at explaining the big regional differences in economic development within India.

That's one of the reasons Knapp and Michaels choose it, and so okay, there it is on the beach. I'll have my stab at it.

Let me make a stab at the answer.

It does not put the world to rights, but it does have a stab at illuminating points of conflict and convergence between China and the west.

Anyone wants to take a stab at the scientific term for visible light?

Uncle Vernon jokingly makes a stab at a connection between magic carpets and wizards.

Anyone wanna take a stab at the scientific term for visible light?

Now the World Bank has made an important stab at calculating just how significant their grip on the national economy really is.

His offensively brief first stab at the draft legislation was, he admits, "a three-page political mistake" .

Gnome-pkgview - Displays the version of desktop components installed, and makes a stab at your overall GNOME version.

If normal journalism is the first draft of history, this publication is a stab at a first draft of the future.

It is an ingenious stab at solving several nagging problems at once.

That is a direct stab at the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, Mao's successor, who tried to undo a large portion of the dictator's work.

Objects were the industry's first stab at delivering high levels of reuse.

German proto-gay rights activist Karl Maria-Kertbeny took the first stab at a definition in 1868.

he made a vicious stab at me with a broken bottle

In ninth grade, they took another stab at bridges, but the project tanked.

It doesn't do anything of course, but you feel a lot better having a button to stab at when everything goes to pot.

In 2006, Meyer-Lindenberg and his team made the first stab at answering that question.

Take a stab at a draft agenda.

He even takes a stab at scribbling the characters.

Dare you stab at any attackers with knife?

Well, I will have a stab at it.

Captain Ahab: "I stab at thee. I stab at thee. "

I'll make a stab at anything.

I don't know for sure. But I can make a stab at guessing.

And while you're there, take a stab at answering this question: Are you happy Sam's back? !

So may the unpopular 3% tax on goods and services introduced last year, Jersey's first stab at indirect taxation.

Taking a stab at its big rival, Asda proclaims: "No Clubcard. No gimmicks. Just lower prices every day" .

Many people can make a stab at saying why.

Listing 2 shows my first stab at a Model instance for my example application

Have a stab at he Job