Apparently, said sources close to the board, the Mayor's attempts to hold together a coalition to save his project collapsed.

An attempt to draft in community support officers collapsed with a failure to agree terms.

An earlier attempt to arrange a formal trade collapsed.

An international attempt to limit government subsidies collapsed last month in Geneva.

The attempt had collapsed, foolishly, and no one wanted to talk about it.

That attempt to save jobs collapsed in 1994 after three years.

An earlier attempt by the Democratic leadership to win a raise without a vote had collapsed in a public firestorm.

The last attempt to buy the company for $300 a share collapsed in October largely because of opposition by the machinists.

Heroic attempts such as crit.org have sometimes collapsed totally.

But repeated attempts to develop District 6 over the last decade have collapsed, and it has become known as cursed land.