How To Use Tempting 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!)
  • Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • These were monitoring variables like humidity and temperature, information that is invaluable to the horticulturalists attempting to propagate the trees.
  • After that I felt that we, the workers, needed unity and I have been attempting to unionise the place.
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  • For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
  • 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
  • Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder.
  • 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.
  • Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
  • The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
  • Orange is guessing that news will be a tempting way of getting users to pay premium prices for data downloads.
  • This has proved invaluable in solving every crime in which the perpetrator is attempting anonymity.
  • I made him what I thought were several tempting offers, but he wouldn't bite.
  • 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.
  • The results are invariable light, crisp and as tempting as food could possibly be, and the whole experience far less traumatic than I imagined.
  • A final complication in attempting to assess combat power is the impact of air power on ground operations. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
  • Driven by its economic crisis, it is attempting to reorganise the globe under its hegemony.
  • So it is tempting to dismiss his dim view of contemporary pop as the all-too-typical plaint of an aging fan. When the Music Stopped
  • She cast one more longing look at the tempting bed before she walked to the window.
  • ‘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.
  • So, Sara is attempting to find a "home" everwhere in the USA! Virginia welcomes Sarah Palin
  • Fishing a groundbait feeder with chopped worm he fished redworm on the hook tempting small carp and tench.
  • In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
  • How to hold your squirming toddler still while attempting a diaper change or tushy wipe? Archive 2007-10-01
  • We know how tempting it can be to indulge in listening to or passing along a juicy rumor.
  • James being freed by the peace from all other cares, bent his attention to the conclusion of a matrimonial alliance, which he had during the last year been attempting.
  • And although the idea of a little surgical help to zap away excess fat seems tempting, cosmetic weight loss ops plummeted last year. The Sun
  • They run into the crossdresser they met earlier (LOL @ July attempting to smile xDD). Darker than Black season 2 – ep 04 « Undercover
  • The "hup" was rather an exclamation of necessity than of delight, inasmuch as that it was caused by Davie coming suddenly down flat on the ice in the act of vainly attempting to go leap-frog over Mivins's head. The World of Ice
  • The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical.
  • The carriers have heard the message and are attempting to move in that direction.
  • I have in fact been quite active in the past month, attempting to take advantage of lower share prices and repositioning the portfolio. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although tempting, fad diets and diet pills are usually not effective and in many cases cause additional health problems.
  • It's tempting to a snooze in the day if you slept badly the night before. The Sun
  • We were attempting to offer consultation to a professional group of nonpsychiatric mental health oriented consultees who were anxious and felt inadequate in this area. Humanistic Nursing
  • It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a trick he kept attempting, like dice. Spring « Unknowing
  • Give them a chance to make an exhibition of themselves and these two never miss the opportunity, as they did while attempting to upstage the president's address to Parliament.
  • This fine morning, while I was attempting to find out some prices per ton of sulphite ore, the CBC pushed this column by Heather Mallick (*) at me. Archive 2007-05-01
  • They also collected thousands of skulls and bones, attempting to address basic questions about race. Smithsonian Mag
  • Perhaps the most famous creation of an isomeric compound was Wöhler's accidental synthesis of urea in 1828, when he was attempting to prepare ammonium cyanate (which he later succeeded in preparing by allowing the crystals to form at room temperature instead of by evaporating the solution). Wöhler, Friedrich
  • It's almost unbearably tempting to suggest a furtive flick on the nose.
  • He feared that by endorsing Sinclair he would alienate the banking and industrial elite, which he was attempting to win to the side of his New Deal policies.
  • Clinicians should remember to ‘fill up the tank’ before attempting to constrict the vessel.
  • Attempting to get that rune is definite, clear and utter suicide.
  • These lesions were better treated by attempting fulguration with the coagulation probe.
  • And I am as adept as most people when it comes to attempting to fix my car. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was getting all sorts of tempting offers for a copy of the tape.
  • You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
  • It's very tempting now she's not here to idolise her to my heart's content, but I do think she was extraordinary. Lorna Sage, my mum
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  • Ten minutes later, while attempting to spread peanut butter on crispbread, the packet leaped off the shelf and a thousand wholemeal arrows hailed down on me.
  • But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified before attempting to demystify. ProWomanProLife » Woah, Nellie
  • Crisp and crunchy Coconut Fried Shrimp makes a tempting appetizer.
  • Finally relenting to the tempting rays of sun, I undressed and sat down on the towel that I had already spread out.
  • They are to be charged with attempting to murder Muller, abducting him, arson, theft, theft of a motor vehicle and housebreaking and theft.
  • Since then the cartel has been attempting to show how responsible it is and has favoured price over volume.
  • Attempting to better control routing strategy, most operators deploy BGP to backbone node routers.
  • We are attempting to scale up and to introduce nutrients by creating a special bioreactor to have live in cells in good bulk to be able to do first animal experiments and then human clinical trials.
  • The new owners of the Malmesbury gym are attempting to offer the complete healthy living centre.
  • That pie looks very tempting.
  • He was kayaking in a twenty-four foot craft for seventy-four days attempting the first solo crossing of the Atlantic.
  • As far as events on-field go, you will know that our top-secret plan of attempting to lull the opposition into a false sense of security by performing abysmally in the pool games almost came off.
  • In attempting to place in perspective the scale of the disaster that had befallen it when South Korea sent its team of inflated egos homewards to mamma and a comforting bowl of minestrone, it turned to history.
  • The growth and development of Munster is illustrated in a series of scale models found in the Stadt Museum, built round a tempting ice cream parlour and above shops.
  • I was driving and waited until the road ahead was clear before attempting to overtake.
  • The warring factions are attempting to negotiate an end to the conflict.
  • Jack sighed and paced through the lobby, attempting to contemplate what to do next.
  • The book starts by attempting to establish a commonly recognized definition of 'shipmaster', described in general terms as 'a qualified seafarer in charge of a ship '. WN.com - Photown News
  • They become extremely attached to items and show extreme anguish when attempting to discard them. Times, Sunday Times
  • When she's not writing, she's reading, playing piano, or attempting to telekinetically control dice in the game of craps.
  • BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ This GOP pansy attempting to call Clinton a “stumblebum”. Think Progress » Perry: Anyone Who’s Not A ‘Rank Political Hack’ Realizes That Bush Was A ‘Very, Very Good President’
  • A football hooligan jailed for attempting to murder a man was a danger to the public, according to a police officer who helped to snare him.
  • We are attempting to use examples of media bias to raise awareness of the deep systemic corruption afflicting the media.
  • On one hand, aesthetic Physic falls back into the equivoke of the theory of artistic and literary classes, by attempting to determine aesthetically the abstractions of our intellect; on the other, fails to recognize, as we said, the true formation of so-called natural beauty; for which the question as to whether some given individual animal, flower, or man be beautiful or ugly, is altogether excluded. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
  • He said the lure of a better life abroad was tempting thousands of people into rickety boats. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some people accidentally dropped their praline square into the melted chocolate, and tempting as it may be, it is not okay to fish for it with your hand.
  • More and more pharmaceutical companies are attempting to develop drugs that can be used to target specific, predefined patient groups. Roche Skin-Cancer Drug Shows Promise
  • Two convicts escape while handcuffed together, and are pursued by police and the press while attempting to track down their former associates.
  • When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. 
  • Wasn't this discussion supposed to be about how the right wing in this country is (mostly successfully) attempting to co-opt public T.V.?
  • It is tempting for trendy writers to portray him as a tool of rich imperialists oppressing the poor convicts.
  • It's always tempting to assume that everything in an older branch such as Anatolian is an archaicism but naturally that can't logically be the case. Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending
  • Having already reached safe ground, his father hesitates for some time before attempting a rescue, more or less repeating the behavior of the two previous instances.
  • For the same reason that I counsel my children on how to handle themselves in a confrontation, rather than attempting to modify the behavior of everyone with whom they may come into contact with: achievability. Self defense and the reasonable woman
  • She was not helped on her debut at Goodwood when drawn out wide and finishing lame after attempting to get involved in the finish. The Sun
  • Beyond that, it's tempting but lazy to link every new colourway, silhouette, fabric choice, etc, with the economic moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cantus swung frantically, attempting to deflect his opponent's blows, one of his swipes finally scoring underneath Soren's defenses.
  • His mother pleaded for approval to use a medicinal cannabidiol, after two months of attempting other treatments had failed.
  • But this type of cycle of violence and counterviolence is particularly the type of action that the road map is designed to stop, was attempting to stop, but clearly, that is very, very difficult indeed. CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2003
  • Sending e-mail with a carbon copy to the whole project team is temptingly easy, but beware of its overuse.
  • But regular football could now be tempting. The Sun
  • Verdict Good features and reasonable pictures at a tempting price. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the time I finish my lunch, including that slice of cake I wasn't going to have, the two waiters under the table laden with the tempting mounds of sweets have finished scouring the baseboards.
  • In attempting to play the shot, Lehmann twisted the injured left knee which he already had strapped and he obviously did further damage.
  • The prospect of a hot cup of tea anywhere with a radiator was just too tempting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tour of the factory making famous artificial pearls, followed by the tempting shop. Collins Traveller - Mallorca
  • If you suffer from back pain , consult your doctor before attempting this exercise.
  • Gibson pursues extortion charges: People magazine reports that controversy-courter Mel Gibson plans to present evidence to detectives proving that Oksana Grigorieva, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his eighth child, is attempting to extort money from him. Celebritology Weekend: Angelina Jolie in D.C.; "Today" show welcomes gay weddings
  • But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified before attempting to demystify. ProWomanProLife » Woah, Nellie
  • I humoured him, not attempting to put his illusions straight.
  • In the case of gapeworms (often caught from pheasants) the birds will be seen gaping after exertion and attempting to cough up the worms which are anchored in the windpipe.
  • It came at once into our minds, how on Sunday, three years before, the steamer "Brother Jonathan," in attempting to do the same thing, struck a rock, and foundered, and nearly all on board were lost. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California
  • I was a little shocked at the fact that he was attempting to defend me.
  • In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance.
  • He couldn't resist such a tempting adventure, thus he traveled west, into this ancient forest to feed his curiosity.
  • The most dramatic result of the scientific account was Louis Bertrand Castel's “ocular clavecin,” an elaborate instrument for projecting colors by a key - board, and this enthusiastic French Jesuit spent years attempting to perfect his color symphonies after the initial announcement of the project in 1725. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • No DNS is being replicated and when attempting to view my DNS settings via tdns. secureserver.net it times out. Go Daddy Sucks…. « The Paradigm Shift
  • For example, nondisclosure could be considered reasonable in the case of a patient with severe depression who was at risk of attempting suicide.
  • Todd says that the White House is attempting to get "command and control" over a situation that's substantively not too eminently commandable or controllable. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
  • A whole book could be written on water as metaphor, much as I am attempting with bread.
  • To those who had watched forlornly as his political hopes ground to a halt in 1989, 1994 and 1998, it seemed he was tempting fate.
  • I left them hastily somewhere in the area of the mucous membrane of the small intestine ( "including that of the plicae circulares") and reverting to my rapidly proliferating list, journeyed back more than 1,360 tempting pages to chorion, only to find myself and it deeply involved with the fetus of mammals. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
  • What I was attempting to say (albeit too concise – and more easily misconstrued) was that the woman pictured behind the picket was already being forced to hide herself by her own culture/religion. Should you have to hide the real you to be accepted – muslim | My[confined]Space
  • It's not necessary to spelunk too deeply into the taint sewer in order to collect some of the most ridiculous examples of the press -- the apparently "liberal" and "in the tank for Obama" press, by the way -- attempting to connect Barack Obama with the alleged Blagojevich crimes. Bob Cesca: Why the Media Taint-Mongers are Continuing to Wrongfully Accuse Obama
  • At the weekly news conference in Moscow, a Russian foreign-ministry spokesman said neighboring countries were free to choose alliances and denied Moscow was attempting to "usurp" other nations 'international rights. Rebuking Russian Ambitions, U.S. Backs Ukraine for NATO
  • In fact, the similarity is so compelling that D'Arcy has no business attempting a denial.
  • He is accused of attempting to sabotage the eradication plan by giving rats an antidote to the poison used in the eradication.
  • Frequently, there is little to say about a jewel case and a simple insert, but the new Shinkoyo label has taken pains to avoid this, instead attempting to make the CD an art object.
  • As the price of developable land soars and the cost of farming forests climbs, the possibility of selling out is tempting.
  • Bad enough I should have to think about it without suffering the indignity of attempting to record it for posterity.
  • Lafferty's red herring usage of her favorite "paraphilia" or sexual deviation instead of sexual orientation or gender identity is a dead giveaway that she is attempting to feed off her readers 'fear and confusion. Bil Browning: TVC's Andrea Lafferty: A zombie queen in pastel
  • They are also attempting to keep the car buyer as a long-term customer by offering after-sales service.
  • In a more limited sense, Piaget, like Hegel, is attempting to transform Kantian ontology into a dialectical movement.
  • My mare rolled over and over in the wet grass and was playful with the gelding, nipping at his hocks and tempting him to chase her.
  • They could hear the burble of Godfrey attempting to speak through his absurd teeth. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • If, as the adage goes, education is wasted on the young, it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters.
  • Santayana employs a naturalistic account of poetry and philosophy, attempting to combine comparative structures with as few embedded parochial assumptions as possible while making explicit our material boundness to particular worlds and perspectives. George Santayana
  • Despite having scoffed those delicious buttermilk pancakes nearly two hours earlier, the smell is just too tempting. The Sun
  • I did ‘take a hit’ on my left thumb, on the second shot, while attempting to use a two-handed grip.
  • The collision occurred when the driver lost control of the vehicle at a curve in the road while attempting to avoid the Federal Border Guard.
  • To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. Rene Descartes 
  • The same problem has also surfaced in England, where it has been said that the notion is finally self-destructing, since all decisions must be reconciled in attempting harmonious statements of law.
  • The recommendation is to avoid attempting to remove algae by adding chemicals to the aquarium water.
  • In ignoring such joy we destroy ourselves. In attempting to restrict it we attempt to capture a butterfly.
  • By Friday, I found myself on the floor, attempting sit-ups. DOUBTING THOMAS
  • I recall a toothache that once aggravated me enough to consider pliers tempting, but there's no indication that Balderston was suffering from serious pain or acute symptoms. Lise Waring: Don't Try This at Home: A Self-Appendectomy in Telluride
  • Outlaw rarely gallops, no longer butts, only periodically kicks, comes in to the pole and does her work without attempting to vivisect Maid's medulla oblongata, and -- marvel of marvels -- is really and truly getting lazy. FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR
  • Bell 12.142 of Davenport, Iowa, performed gastrotomy on a man, who, while attempting a feat of legerdemain, allowed a bar of lead, 10 1/8 inches long, 1 1/2 inches wide, and 9 1/2 ounces in weight, to slip into his stomach. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The couple is to be commended for attempting to resolve their debt problem.
  • On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow.
  • Factor analysis is harmless as data reduction, but it is tempting to "reify" the factors, to suppose that they are the hidden causes behind the observations. American Scientist Online
  • At an indoor arena in Stoke yesterday he was attempting to show how. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, to do so is especially tempting since they seem to take themselves so very seriously.
  • Each of the first three, you can manoeuvre one way or another if you are attempting to stay in a budget. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even a very rich and hearty luncheon, which her maid had provided, was gormandized rather than enjoyed, so tempting did her couch look to the worn-out damsel. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
  • The dancing on display looks like a woman with panties infested with fire ants is attempting to flag down a taxi. "A Good Argument"
  • It is tempting to refuse to answer those who have nothing to contribute but rude remarks, insults, and attempts to accuse others of things never said.
  • There is little point in attempting anything practical: boiling a kettle on the living room floor is ill-advised with three pre-schoolers tugging at the flex.
  • One fine morning as he waddled down the chapel steps, his recalcitrant congregation took matters into their own hands, "debagging" the holy hypocrite and attempting "to deprive him of his manhood. Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob
  • I can see why the entrist approach would be tempting. Two views of social democracy
  • Officers were attempting to gain control of the area when a middle-age man believed to be the husband of the gunwoman ran toward the house and rushed inside. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
  • The UN however did not authorize or agree to the UK attempting to take over Libya or kill their leader - neither did the UN agree to foreign forces in Libya - Gaddafi was right all along - this war is all about foreigners in Libya destablizing the country -ie, the UK and their useless SAS. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Attempting to turn gays straight is no less ludicrous than attempting to turn straights gay.
  • But given his looks, I guess he is attempting to seduce with his romantic style at the moment and seems content to go for the emotional heartbreakers rather than the feel-good anthems.
  • Apparently attempting to master two mediums is not sufficient for Whedon as he has also branched out to writing comic books. An Introduction To Joss Whedon | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
  • The Conservatives, who won the votes of barely one in five Canadians in the federal election held October 14, are accusing the opposition parties of attempting a "putsch" and thwarting the will of the electorate. Canada's "putsch": Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
  • I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan in The Life of Swift [3], which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as 'A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men; 'that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated. Life Of Johnson
  • Vincenzo's selection of salads includes several tempting pasta salads as well as more exotic items such as tabbouleh.
  • Renouncing these prodigal sons and attempting to lay them at the door of the west is shirking responsibility.
  • Would it be too fantastic to suggest that attempting to broadbase similar books (and thus, help them attain staple reading status), may be one tiny signal to some basic desired changes in public perception? Why Do Book-Sellers Discount Popular Books?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • These are tasty sweeteners, but the dissidents at Steel Partners offer something potentially more tempting -- more rigor and discipline at a rather lackluster wigmaker. Steel Partners' Latest Japan Tangle
  • Freud concluded that both neurotics who had been exposed to shock and children who had been exposed to distress were attempting to master their unpleasant experiences by repeating them in dream and play.
  • He was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in connection with an alleged plot to bomb the annual public event.
  • A deal was made, and On the Buses was brought to the screen by Hammer in a film that, instead of attempting to broaden and strengthen its TV source, merely inflated and further vulgarized it.
  • The utter hopelessness of attempting to gain sleep while shuttling to and fro inside a coach is almost impossible to communicate.
  • Actors and actresses performing Racine should speak their lines as verse instead of attempting to make this formal and highly ordered language seem the natural expression of psychological states.
  • Smoked fish is now eaten all year round - but juicy kippers, smoked Finnan haddock or delicious Arbroath smokies are still especially tempting round about now.
  • It is tempting to underestimate the scale and radical nature of changes occurring around us, socially or geographically.
  • There's no point in even attempting an explanation - he'll never listen.
  • Tempting as it was to pass round the oatcakes and crack open a bottle of Burgundy there and then, its whiffy pong soon ruled out any chance of afternoon nibbles.
  • Attempting to form a political party or joining an Islamic group were known as easy ways to provoke the security forces into action.
  • However, when it comes to attempting to understand the deep structure of classical proof systems (and in particular, when two derivations that differ in some superficial syntactic way are really different ways to represent the one underlying ˜proof™) it is enlightening to think of classical logic as formed by a basic substructural logic, in which extra structural rules are imposed as additions. Substructural Logics
  • Attempting to capture the saucy spirit of the movies and genre on which the series was based, and even featuring several of the frisky familiar faces from the films, one would anticipate a risqué, ribald offering.
  • Following, an 8 minute trailer for the film, which is attempting to raise $5000 USD for distribution and promotion of the film, and also in subtitling the film to local languages and to be distributed in mobile cinemas throughout Afghanistan and other developing countries. Global Voices in English » IndieGoGo: fundraising for independent film-makers
  • It's tempting to veer into overkill territory with defined lashes and a sweep of rosy blusher on the cheeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yes," Westray said dubitatively; "I suppose it couldn't be construed into attempting to outwit her, could it? The Nebuly Coat
  • Weather conditions prevented them from attempting the jump.
  • A carpet devoid of patterns covered the steps, a dark green wallpaper attempting to cover the walls but peeling away as well.
  • She had come close to death more than once and had known pain so excruciating that she felt sure the demons were tempting her to blaspheme.
  • These rates cannot help but influence the development of adolescents attempting to survive on a day-to-day existence.
  • The power source for everything they were attempting to accomplish was the infall of matter from the three brown dwarf stars. On the Spot at BSC – Thomas Harlan interview
  • As for him, he was not thinking of the mountain girl, the oread who, in the days when he was younger and his heart beat high, had caught his light fancy, tempting him from his comrades back to the cabin in the valley, to look again into her eyes and touch the brown waves of her hair. Audrey
  • In one place we read of the surprisal of an Indian fort in the night, when the wigwams were wrapped in flames, and the miserable inhabitants shot down and slain in attempting to escape, “all being despatched and ended in the course of an hour.” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • Perhaps a researcher can also shield herself from sorrow by attempting to conduct objective value-free research on subjective emotion-drenched issues.
  • If we were truly attempting to remove discrimination and treat people equally, same-sex couples should be taking the bad with the good - the detriments and obligations along with the benefits.
  • The Tories and the LibDems said fears that ministers were attempting to 'suffocate' the inquiry were being borne out. Home | Mail Online
  • When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. 
  • He said he wasn't attempting to prohibit debate on the report, but rather asked for restraint pending adjudication by the courts.
  • Only once did the excitable youngster's tongue become tied, this when attempting to articulate the word ‘ambitions’, in the course of an enquiry into what he considers his to be.
  • It got worse when, attempting to summon a waiter for more wine, I mistakenly outbid everyone in the raffle for a snooker cue signed by innumerable world champions.
  • This is a clear example of attempting to explain an unknown phenomenon by means of models based on known phenomena.
  • It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing.
  • For better or for worse, this country is our home and we are its citizens, and as tempting as expatriatism is, our country needs us. Being Amber Rhea
  • Both the government and opposition are now engaged in attempting to whitewash the military.
  • Others feel that antioxidants are a requirement for any product that is attempting to reduce wrinkles or aid in wrinkle control. Take Care of Your Skin
  • Why all this profuse vegetation and the anomaly of tempting fruits and nuts cram-full of meat and yet no real food — that is, food for man? The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • In one of my favourite scenes, the Duke catches an embarrassed Valentine attempting to elope with Silvia and banishes him.
  • Today, he was riding in it, punting along with a rubber ended broom handle, playing on the kazoo, and attempting to look like a gondola owner.
  • With this particular solution, I split the difference between accuracy and reality, choosing a bass boost through augmentation rather than attempting EQ and potentially overdriving the 6-inch woofers - or my ears.

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