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1 - The Obama administration's attempt to resume military aid to Egypt faces critical opposition in Congress.

2 - Using alternative and homemade remedies to terminate a pregnancy is very dangerous and unsafe, so should not be attempted.

3 - Educators have made numerous attempts to develop a framework for making sense of what goes on in the mind of the reader in the process of reading a text.

4 - The attempt to understand, measure and predict earthquake is by no means a modern fascination.

5 - The government is spending millions of dollars in its attempt to combat drug abuse.