Sentence examples for a faltering attempt from inspiring English sources

Kemp became a hero to the Reagan branch of the party and, in 1988, the year that George H. W. Bush won the White House, made a faltering attempt to run for President.

His son Rhys pops in to discuss A-levels and his drum'n'bass collection (my faltering attempt to find common ground earns the tart putdown: "Yeah, lots of the best records are from the 90s").

Shifting attention to the tribal areas on both sides of the border, the faltering attempt to assert government influence has vacillated between a scheme of top-down security and state control to one of negotiated surrender.

Thursday's development was the latest humiliating twist in Mr Musharraf's faltering attempt to restart his political career since he returned to Pakistan last month after almost four years of exile in Dubai and London.

The committee has now sent emergency reinforcements to Rio de Janeiro to help shore up the city's faltering attempt to stage the 2016 Summer Olympics, but Burns thinks the I.O.C. should have been there from 2009.

The police have much explaining to do – and will have to do better than yesterday's faltering attempt by the Met's QC to imply that hindsight was the main factor involved in the clear picture now emerging.

Part of the joke, too, may be that despite Mr. Lieberman's advocacy of forcing Arab citizens to learn the national anthem, a brief video clip of his own faltering attempts to sing the tune in public inspired a number of YouTube remixes by Israeli bloggers.

Iran's sometimes faltering attempts to come to grips with this new reality are providing a laboratory for what can and cannot be done in this new media age — and providing lessons to other governments, watching with calculated interest from afar, about what they may be able to get away with should their own citizens take to the streets.

The move follows years of faltering attempts to overcome political differences and combine regional strengths against the insurgency.

He then recorded and later replayed on his laptop my first, faltering attempts at remodelling my swing.

The complicity of many military units in the killings, though it is hard to know which commanders are involved, has jeopardised Indonesia's faltering attempts at democracy.