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Han's parents praise his attempts to use the toilet and encourage him to learn at his own pace.

One night, as he attempted to walk off another bad dream, a nearby lantern began to crackle and tear.

And despite King Charles II’s attempt to ban them in 1675, coffeehouses kept simmering as social and intellectual hotbeds.

Very often we see that attempts to restrict speech often risks making a martyr out of those that you want to silence.

Today, the Supreme Court attempts to take the power out of the Voting Rights Act to make it more difficult for non-whites to vote.

Some affluent cities like New York and Shanghai attempt to adapt, elevating buildings and roadways.

And they're not going to be attempts to solve math-contest problems.

Subsequent behaviours are a reflection of the mind’s concerted attempts to find a way out of a naked encounter with pain.

A sense of weakness, real or imagined, holds them back from attempts to persecute others.

In fact, a skilled investigator can even use these lingering patterns to identify attempts at blood removal.

He also told us that this tort claim filing was not an attempt to get around the anti-weaponization fund and the collapse of that.

Then there are the Five Pillars of Islam, which are sort of like guidelines that many Muslims attempt to emulate in their daily lives.

While the term “missionary position” coming from sexual rules imposed by Christian missionaries is likely urban legend, it is true that Christian missionaries attempted to control sexual activities in colonial spaces.