Sentence examples for a botched effort. from inspiring English sources

The defendants, who will receive six to eight years in prison each, are William Harris; his ex-wife, Emily Montague Michael Bortinn; and Sara Jane Olson, who is already in prison serving 14 years for a botched effort to blow up two Los Angeles police cruisers in 1975.

The government says Mr. Sterling provided material for a chapter in Mr. Risen's book detailing a botched effort by the agency to sabotage Iranian nuclear research in 2000.

He has endured a bruising battle over his new schools chancellor, an $80 million fraud scheme involving the city's payroll system and a botched effort by the city to deal with a crippling snowstorm last month.

Mr. Welch also helped revive an investigation against Mr. Sterling, who is accused of providing information about what was portrayed in Mr. Risen's 2006 book, "State of War," as a botched effort to sabotage Iranian nuclear research in 2000.

After a botched effort to take control almost two decades ago, British American Tobacco still owns only 31% of ITC, a fags-to-biscuits conglomerate that has grown so fast it is now a global player in its own right.

Shares of Satyam, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, have plummeted by about 40percentt since a botched effort two weeks ago to buy two infrastructure companies.

The botched effort to capture aides to a Somali warlord in 1993 by the Delta Force, an elite American commando unit, led to the death of 18 serviceman.

The botched effort to take the company private could make a bond issue harder.

Prince Mohammed's devastating military intervention in Yemen, botched effort to force Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to resign, and hamstrung boycott of Qatar have backfired and only strengthened the Islamic republic's regional influence.

Burns, who has died of a heart attack aged 57, claimed to have undergone 300 surgical procedures, many of them in an attempt to repair previous botched efforts.

(AP) EUROPE BRITAIN: EX-SPY DENIES CHARGES -- The former spy David Shayler pleaded not guilty to charges he broke the Official Secrets Act in telling a newspaper that British intelligence had botched efforts to stop Irish Republican Army attacks and the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Embassy and kept files on celebrities and politicians.