Sentence examples for Sustained attempts from inspiring English sources

Sustained attempts to teach apes language generated more controversy than illumination.

With it came more sustained attempts to de-politicise the attacks.

This book is about Ms. Brockes's sustained attempts to unearth them.

Mr. Armstrong said Mr. Tracy died despite immediate and sustained attempts by Virginia prison guards to intervene.

At P.S. 8, many teachers were wary after years of student attrition and few sustained attempts at improvement.

Though it received strikingly little public attention at the time, the Obama administration undertook sustained attempts to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty with China.

Or give up and make a serious and sustained attempt at redirecting my working life.

"America has experienced a sustained attempt by a hostile power to feed and exploit our country's divisions," Mr. Bush said.

Out of the window went any sustained attempt to assess Motion's careful placing of Larkin in post-war English poetry.

The one sustained attempt to evoke a sense of place -- a two-page sprint from Union Square through Greenwich Village to the Lower East Side -- could have been transcribed from the speech of a tour-bus conductor counting the days to retirement.

She inspired Ann Veronica, but the scandal made relations impossible with the straitlaced Fabian Society, in which Wells had made his most sustained attempt to turn socialist principle into practice.