I was immediately reminded of abortive attempts from the early days of home videophilia, when The Criterion Collection came out with LaserDiscs of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Bram Stoker's Dracula containing instructions for using that format's rudimentary chapter - programming to create different edits on the fly. (filmfreakcentral.net)
To date, after making a couple abortive attempts at night - training her, I haven't worried about it too much, but I am getting tired of buying pull - ups. (askmoxie.org)
He recalled the detention of incoming passengers from Muslim nations, all of them cleared to enter the country under President Barack Obama, at John F. Kennedy Airport in January after Trump made his first abortive attempt at a travel ban. (observer.com)