Sentence examples similar to Sustained attempt for from inspiring English sources

This is the kind of art that comes closest to video games, for Renaissance illusionism was the most sustained attempt to create virtual realities.

He added: "These awful toxic phrases which were hung round my neck for weeks and weeks in a sustained attempt to toxify the Conservative Party and destroy my career were completely and totally untrue".

All any party needs to offer is a sustained attempt to provide social housing, better planning of school places (for which local authorities have been pathetically under-prepared, considering their five years' notice) and some undertaking to tackle the stagnant wages and rising prices that are making everybody's lives worse.

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families," McInerney writes in his novel "The Last of the Savages," his most sustained attempt to sort through the 1960s.

The judge suggested that parties should make a "sustained attempt" to try to find a resolution.

With the continued denigration of public perception of doctors, there is a sustained attempt to make the NHS fail.

Without a sustained attempt at accountability and atonement, the church will not escape the hovering shadow of that horrible crime.

That is partly because there has been a sustained attempt to introduce more serious fare at the channel.

A sustained attempt at economic reform came with the appointment of Leonid Kuchma as prime minister in October 1992.

But there is no sustained attempt to present what EMW Tillyard (in his now somewhat discredited book) described as "the Elizabethan world picture", or fully to imagine the radically different experience that - for example - going to the theatre meant for a 16th - or 17th-century man or woman.

"In that time, I've seen prime ministers and leaders of the opposition come and go, but for all their achievements and failures, what I didn't see was a sustained attempt to rid this country of what really holds people back.