1.   Dole has repeatedly tried to avoid giving Democrats the opportunity for a straight vote on the wage.

2.   She has repeatedly tried to defend her husband against hostile criticism in the press.

3.   They repeatedly tried to infiltrate assassins into the palace.

4.   We repeatedly tried to contact the manager, an elusive man who was never in his office.

5.   Repeatedly tried to gainsay me, though every point I made was backed up by facts.

6.   Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family had still not been paid.

7.   Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.

8.   Also apparent are a thirst for normality in a society that has repeatedly tried to confront Auschwitz and anxiety over freedom of speech in what is an established democracy.

9.   And he has repeatedly tried to strip the Federal Communications Commission of authority to review and impose conditions on mergers of telephone companies or broadcasters.