How To Use Attempt In A Sentence

Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
Contrary to what has been claimed, the theory is not insulated against attempts to disconfirm it.
The most interesting statistic on the list is the large number of accidents where the pilot attempted to land with the gear down with amphibious floats.
Airline officials are calling the attack a suicide attempt.

At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
An attempt will be made to identify best practice, to help bridge the gap between theoretical prescriptions and practical modelling procedures.
Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
This blogger is a seriously insecure woman who needs to examine her shaky sense of privilege before again attempting to write about transpeople. The Brave One Goes Crazy And Murders Weekend Box Office
In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit. ITnews Australia
These were monitoring variables like humidity and temperature, information that is invaluable to the horticulturalists attempting to propagate the trees.
This isn't an attempt to universalize, for there is rich, specific detail everywhere: food, foliage, the course of the conflict. The Times Literary Supplement
A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
After that I felt that we, the workers, needed unity and I have been attempting to unionise the place.
For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
Any attempt to disprove the theory of evolution using thermodynamics will require proper formalisms.
Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
A similar attempt at reconciling Absolute Idealism and monadism had been made by Lotze, and in both cases it remains an open question whether this is not pre-established harmony in disguise. Francis Herbert Bradley
All three impulsively committed a felonious act that lead to their incarceration, i.e., attempted murder and kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder.
Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
The channel's viewership is ageing, and attempts to attract younger watchers have yet to bear fruit.
Other are supporting the attempt to make it less straightforward to obtain ebooks through a library. Times, Sunday Times
More troubleshooting is attempted none of which remedies the situation. Xbox Live Won't Refund Points For Game They Can't Deliver - The Consumerist
In terms of structure, an attempt should have been made to sectionize the book according to themes. Undefined
I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
To counter both this and the high levels of private label saturation, bakery and cereals manufacturers are attempting to differentiate their brands, especially in growth areas such as healthy and convenient bakery products. Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
Attempts to rip it off gave me a sprained wrist. The Sun
Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui". Armed and Dangerous
Their attempt to bribe the clerk had failed.
Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder.
mousetrapping" problem with your browser that won't let you get out of endless attempts to get the action you desire from clicking, close out of the browser completely by hitting ctrl-alt-del. and then terminating the browser. Undefined
By using an affirmation, you are attempting to shift yourself so that you can do or be something even though your mind doesn't accept it yet.
Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
Another modern attempt to make a classic 1930s screwball comedy. Times, Sunday Times
It widely considered the president's attempt to save a sliver of his otherwise, rather soily international legacy. Archive 2008-11-01
Marti was scheduled to return for another attempt to drain the fluid when her perinatologist told her she had made an appointment for Marti at Children's Hospital's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. TTTS — Dicus
By appealing to these absolutes, the president has attempted to endow his cause with a kind of ultimacy, in which ‘those who are not for us are against us.’
The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
Lacy argued that he was misled by Stello when the arbiter pumped him out at second during an apparent steal attempt.
This chapter will attempt to analyse some of the possibilities for the teaching of information skills in the primary school curriculum.
We've gotten better with our techniques and applying them predeparture, ensuring we're looking at as broad a section of potential risk as possible, said Kevin McAleenan, deputy assistant commissioner of field operations at Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.CBP said the gap in U.S. security practices wasn't obvious until after the attempted Christmas attack. U.S. blocks 350 with suspected ties to terrorists
Speaking of rounding tight corners, the Daily News reports that some messengers attempted to promote cycling in Queens this past weekend by holding an alleycat called "BLVDS of DEATH: Archive 2010-09-01
Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
These waves of films - and previous attempts at 3D-television broadcasting - used what's known as the anaglyph method of imaging. The Engineer - News
Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
The two sides remain sharply polarised, and periodic attempts to bridge the wide gulf between them have fizzled out.
They called C4, which is Mexico's emergency dispatch system and advised them that they had been lost for two days, were stranded, dehydrated, and were going to light a signal fire to attempt to get some help," said Cal Fire spokesperson Roxanne Provaznik. Knowledge is Power
She was arrested and charged with treason, a capital offence, but made no attempt to deny her actions. Times, Sunday Times
Present-day economic, social and political conditions are identified and an outline description of their origins is attempted.
The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
Most nurses are groomed and institutionalized to believe that unions are bad and unprofessional (anytime a nurse hears the term unprofessional, it is usually from management in an attempt to control behavior). Nursing Voices Forum Meet other nurses, share your nursing knowledge and experiences
He succeeded in his attempt to break the world record.
I report here an observation of attempted predation by a tayra in the western Amazon, in Acre, Brazil.
A whole battery of measures was tried in an attempt to get them to give up cigarettes.
How many bands have attempted to recapture the mood and style of their naive years? Times, Sunday Times
He failed in his attempt to take control of the company.
Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
The escalade was to be attempted by a band of ten; five of the trumpeters and buglemen were selected and four centurions, the Ligurian was to be their guide. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
Solutions attempted in piecemeal fashion, as we've seen thus far, would amount to constantly putting out recurring fires. State Bailouts? They've Already Begun
They didn't admit they were defeated; they began to recruit and attempted to stage a comeback.
His fleshless snout made stunted attempts at movement while he spoke, though his speech was clear and articulated.
A police officer witnessed this blatant disregard for the law and attempted to ticket the student for jaywalking.
She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
Wood, Bruner, and Ross (1976) in one of the first attempts to define the term, itemise six: April « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values.
His second attempt was hardly more auspicious. Christianity Today
I was startled at the news that 129 persons were killed last Sunday in the attempt by rebel air force officers to overthrow the government in the capital.
After the 5th attempt to "resend" I get the above message. PinStack.com
An interesting bit of backstory to the battle over Tim Burgess’ attempt to expand the definition of aggressive panhandling, which passed the city council 5-4 yesterday but faces a certain mayoral veto. After Giving Opponents Months to Organize Against Panhandling Proposal, Burgess Tried to Fast-Track Legislation « PubliCola
Multimedia is the attempt to make computers behave like television sets, only interactively.
England have enjoyed 27 attempts on goal in their three matches compared to 47 by their opponents. Times, Sunday Times
According to the police report, Officer Steven Kuhnau attempted to call the scammer, posing as a student in need of software. News
Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
There have been endless attempts to relabel and reappropriate. The Times Literary Supplement
A bold attempt is half success.
She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.
He called the advertising a blatant attempt to buy votes for the coming election.
Alex's first attempt to save his friend from the rough sex maniac went sour, but he's determined to try again regardless of the consequences.
The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves. It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
This is an attempt to intimidate and blackguard the prison officers and this is an attempt that will fail.
An attempt to capture as much sound from a piano as possible.
They have already taken a sunset swim and caught a fish at their first attempt at fishing. Times, Sunday Times
You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
Crawfish King and Hot Space attempted to challenge their unbeaten rival on the backstretch but were no match for Lost in the Fog, who was ridden out after gaining a commanding five-length lead entering the stretch.
Frenetic attempts to distract and comfort him may actually overstimulate him and increase his levels of arousal. Times, Sunday Times
Since the law confers this public right, I deprecate any attempt artificially to restrict its scope.
This has proved invaluable in solving every crime in which the perpetrator is attempting anonymity.
The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature. SACRAMENT
Since then, there have been sporadic attempts at least to get individual westerns off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
The way he's overcome adversity has been a real inspiration - and in a vain attempt to copy him I'm following his training programme as I prepare for my first duathlon.
Both warrior and martyr alike join forces in the town and attempt to keep the peace.
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
This lack of action may also trigger some legal action from insurance companies in an attempt to recoup cash paid out to flooded households. Times, Sunday Times
The evidence needed for sound policymaking should thus be much more comprehensive than attempts to extrapolate dubious principles from the findings of controlled trials.
A passive-aggressiveness marches through it: On one hand, Capitol doubts its salability and keeps it off the market; on the other, the label constantly attempts to justify its importance by hailing every burp and burble emanating from the recording booth. Pet Sounds : It's Not Rock 'n' Roll, But We Like It
His stunt mimics magician David Blaine's attempt to survive 72 days in a glass box above London but Michael decided he would use the idea to raise cash for charity.
Objective: The study attempts to find initial relationship between olfactory perception favor and individual personality, to explore a new route in research of personality at behavior level.
Wesson meant for his plan to be triggered if police or employees with Child Protective Services — people he called devils — attempted to break up his family, she has argued. Wesson’s speedy trial a rarity
Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
THE man who went undercover in an attempt to expose the bung culture in English football was keeping a low profile again yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier attempts to incorporate social and economic history into art history usually focused on macrosocial and macroeconomic issues.
The murderer attempted to escape from law punishment by spoiling his own face.
The worthies on the committee also attempted to explain why those mistakes - in surveillance, in intelligence-gathering, analysis and co-ordination - were made.
Despite all our attempts to break it open, the lock would not yield.
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
Others attempted to storm a naval base, but were turned back by police.
Any attempt to incorporate it after the contract is made will be unsuccessful.
There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions.
The first uses what AirTight now alternately refers to as a "vulnerability" or a "limitation" in the 802.11 specification: a shared encryption key called the group temporal key (GTK), shared by all clients connected to the same access point, can't detect an address spoofing attempt (the pairwise keys, which are used to scramble data between a given client and the access point, can). AirTight defends Wi-Fi WPA2 'vulnerability' claim
A temporary export ban was imposed to allow time for a British buyer to match the price, but the attempt failed. Times, Sunday Times
Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
The Town Hall seems fair game for criticism, but in fact there has been a concerted attempt, especially in the past few years, to get things moving.
Most attempts to quantify the effect of a separation are speculative. Times, Sunday Times
They consider themselves girls, but they consistently reject most of the attempts of the culture to feminize them.
feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
Various rather crude attempts are being made to whip up opposition to such options.
The attempt ended in abject failure.
Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
A rumor is floating about that the businessman is getting ready to waste millions again in a futile attempt to become governor, but that's relevant only to the coyotes who will take his money.
The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself. A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
It is a challenging question without a clear answer, but some tentative suggestions can be attempted. Times, Sunday Times
Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
Roosevelt's National Recovery Act NRA attempted to cartelize the American economy just as Mussolini had cartelized Italy's. In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two."
Attempts to reconcile religious differences have been going on for years. Times, Sunday Times
After several attempts and most of the matches, she lit a small fire.
The recent calculations reviewed in the article go beyond the valence approximation and attempt to improve the approach to continuum by a logarithmic factor relative to previous simulations.
Twitter in an attempt to exert discipline at the end of a year that has been blighted by rebellion within the side and allegations of match-fixing. Times, Sunday Times
In short, I told them that U-13 should be destroyed and that we should not attempt to deliver Marburg by aerosol. CHAMELEON
Attempts to locate the lorry at Harwich International Port were unsuccessful.
This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem.
It looked like a boffo debut for him and his attempt to go Hollywood.
Tournament organisers have brought forward play in the final round by one hour as they attempt to protect what should be a great spectacle from the showery weather which is forecast for later in the day.
What selfish purpose is served by a crass attempt to hide something that stands no chance at all of escaping notice? Times, Sunday Times
No attempt to rebook, no real apology, barely more than a sentence really. The Sun
He closed his eyes and allowed himself one final rest before he attempted to move again.
Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit.
I'm thinking my next project will be a hat, although I need to learn more before I try it, because my other attempts have mostly ended in failure, with me taking out all the stiches. Archive 2010-01-01
The dragon roared and forced its claws in and ripped its hole wider in an attempt to force its way into the town.
Mandeep attempted to explain that his patka was not a hat, but rather an article of faith that must remain on his head.
I'm sure Sergen meant well and simply wanted to share his pleasure with the widest possible audience, yet there is a dark interpretation of these events: namely, that the Besiktas players were attempting some kind of wind-up.
She appeared on daytime TV in a forlorn attempt to persuade the public of her innocence.
Another attempt by Republican Obstructionists to "bamboozle" the American taxpayers. Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
Past incarnations have included journaling teaching, and an attempt at journaling straight lit and cultural crit.
A final complication in attempting to assess combat power is the impact of air power on ground operations. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
His suicide attempt was the first intimation that he was seriously depressed.
She made no attempt to disguise her surprise.
I take advantage of the free time and attempt one of my less conspicuous sacroiliac-joint stabilization exercises. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
Will drunk college students attempt to scale the seven metre structure?
He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
A satisfactory and lasting result in the water context cannot be achieved and should not be attempted by wholly divorcing consideration of the overriding conflict.
Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
Driven by its economic crisis, it is attempting to reorganise the globe under its hegemony.
He slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt.
There are two evils of our present railway system, however, which are not chargeable to monopoly, but to the _attempt to defeat monopoly_, and which are important to our discussion. Monopolies and the People
In a separate development yesterday, Eircom turned up the heat in its attempts to sign up more customers by launching a new introductory package.
Previous attempts to do this have used light to push individual atoms into an excited state.
Many electrical based light workers also crave protein in an attempt to rebuild the muscular structure as it burns off in the light infusion.
Leaving aside the touching attempt to deflect criticism, what should savers do? Times, Sunday Times
The majority of the film is set in Connecticut, and the production design is admirable, since it does not attempt to glorify the characters' lower class surroundings.
He bought scores of wine books, consulted winemakers, and with textbook in hand attempted to turn the Bauduc plonk into a memorable wine.
Rescue attempts were stopped because of bad weather.
But how is this to be done, and which of my little court dare attempt this tour de jongleur with any chance of success? The Abbot
In the last year, three general strikes called to protest against the president, protests in the streets, people killed, and one attempted coup.
Leonard attempts to convince Sheldon he misses Amy and that he's trying to replace her with "a bunch of cats, " to which Sheldon responds, "Clowder.
Investigators have yet to establish a motive, but a failed robbery attempt is a likely reason, Moen said.
I was sitting in Panera Bread last night, fumbling around with proxies in an attempt to get around their ham-fisted network filtering.
There has also been a blizzard of complaints about poor customer service, falling earnings, rising debt, and a hostile attempt to force changes at board level.
The French attempted to save time by combining mobilization and concentration.
There have been reports of recent attempted kidnappings, muggings and stabbings.
The Chancellor has not taken the opposite political risk of a serious attempt to reduce the budget deficit by increases in taxation and reductions in expenditure. Times, Sunday Times
I've never heard the term aged news," said Mr. Berke, giving off an air of superiority, even if it was a feeble attempt at being funny. Times Editors Bomb in Daily Show Visit
Coinciding with the Action Movie Festival, AXN also organised road shows earlier this week at popular hang-outs all over the city in yet another attempt to connect to its audiences.
As John Carter has observed, such attempts at definition are a favourite game among bibliophiles.
‘It is a question of taking a tragedy and making a political issue out of it, attempting to wrong-foot the government on this issue,’ he said.
He has a plenitude of potential, but no experience at peaking for a top show, having failed to place in his only other pro-qualifier attempt.
Ferguson salvaged at least a point from another tough assignment, the first of the season at the third attempt.
His sense of humour, always in evidence, made it impossible for him to seem pompous or self-important, and he never attempted to disguise his own fallibility as a human being.
So, Sara is attempting to find a "home" everwhere in the USA! Virginia welcomes Sarah Palin
The speech is an attempt to regain the initiative after criticism of his handling of a shadow cabinet reshuffle. Times, Sunday Times
However, no sooner had the parliament spoken than there were attempts to unsay its words.
RETURN-DETAIL/ - is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to submit the package for approval.
The rest of the speech consisted largely of jingoistic bluster and attempts at political intimidation.
During the first attempt at reform, it initially seemed as if internal and external forces would align to compel the President to take real action.
Afghan and western officials say the policy has damaged attempts to reach out to insurgents. Times, Sunday Times
The first step in scientific map-making, all earlier attempts were more enthusiastic than accurate.
Her suicide attempt was really a desperate cry for help.
The old couple will attempt to leave the town as soon as possible.
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
In the face of "misalignment," the very existence of a "currency imbalance" would be sufficient to open the door to trade sanctions -- whether or not that imbalance resulted from a deliberate attempt to manipulate the market. Forbes.com: News

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