There are currently timid attempts to establish education in their native language in the town of Divjaka.

After catching the ball, Darius stepped inches over his own goal line in a timid attempt to run back his interception.

All their timid attempts to forego the extravagant affair are firmly rebuffed by parents whose standard argument verges on blackmail: "Otherwise you won't be happy together."

He, too, quashed the timid attempt of the more liberal minded of the deputies to obtain a promise from the king of some sort of a constitution.

These timid attempts at industrialization were interrupted by the Peninsular War.

When the upheaval finally ceased, there were timid attempts to find out what had been spared and was susceptible of being raised from the ruins.

Despite a few timid attempts to emulate this literature in English, it can be argued that few writers seem to connect with either the landscape or the literary tradition.

Mendelssohn's and Wessely's timid attempts to inaugurate a new era did not appeal to him.

His incisor tooth made a timid attempt to reach daylight but without success.

To the Editor: Many of the timid, tentative attempts to explain the violence at a Jonesboro, Ark., middle school miss the mark.