Sentence examples for Intense attempts from inspiring English sources

For several years we've witnessed intense attempts to take away people's right to vote.

Perhaps one of the more intense attempts to end his life, was that of Augusto Dantas, who literally tried to slice him in half with garden sheers at the opening of his Toronto clinic in 1983.

For many millions of people in Britain and around the world, it has become an annual point of contact with racing, a brief, intense attempt to follow their runners around Aintree amid the familiar havoc and uncertainty.

Across her first decade as a playwright, Kirkwood's work displays trademarks of strong narrative – "I came to realise that Chimerica is really a thriller" – and, in common with the work of her theatrical heroine Caryl Churchill, an intense attempt to approximate on stage the way people really speak.

Intense American attempts to convince Mr Putin that cold self-interest should lead him to ditch the Assad regime have led nowhere.

The weekend's events threw Europe into weeks of confusion and turbulence as 10 days of intense last-ditch attempts to salvage an agreement between Greece and its creditors collapsed.

The mutual lack of trust is so intense that even attempts at rapprochement, notably during training activities, have failed.

Hurt feelings and distress were expressed by some of the 16 adult donor-conceived people surveyed in the 1990s when their anonymous donors failed to respond to the offspring's intense and persistent attempts to find them (Turner and Coyle, 2000).

The problem with the North Korean strategy, experts say, is that rather than cause the U.S. and its allies to back off from a conflict, the use of nuclear weapons by Pyongyang would motivate the U.S. and its allies to launch an intense, full-scale attempt to destroy North Korea's military and decapitate its leadership.

This endeavor provoked intense public controversy over recent attempts to model areas at risk of invasion by the Indian Python (Python molurus).

But the fact that we have avoided the muscle pulls, tendon strains and ligament tears that go hand in hand with a lackadaisical approach to personal fitness mixed with occasional, intense and deeply misguided attempts at physical exertions on the cricket pitch wins us a place in the team.Other members of the side have more to offer than merely being free of injury.