Sentence examples for a flawed attempt from inspiring English sources

Bergdahl has framed his decision as a flawed attempt to draw attention to poor leadership within his platoon.

Jefferson County's outsize debt grew out of a flawed attempt to refinance bonds that it sold in the 1990s to raise money for court-ordered improvements to its sewer system.

The retrenchment needed to deal with these financial difficulties hurt not just patient care but also Labour's reputation.This perceived incompetence was exemplified by a flawed attempt to change NHS recruitment practices.

The Sex Pistols feature film, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, was a flawed attempt by McLaren to make out that he was the author of the group and that he had planned everything in advance.

Caught in a flawed attempt to "liberate" the silverware from the British embassy in Kabul, he is easily persuaded by the sinister Quilty and the beautiful Mathilde, both of the British secret service, to carry out a rather more tricky operation.

Instead, most of the criticism from the attendees was focused on Citigroup's planned 1-for-10 reverse stock split on May 6, which was derided as "window dressing" and a flawed attempt to increase the price of the bank's sagging shares.

Among contemporary critics, K.L. Amladi of India Today called the film a "dead ember" and "a gravely flawed attempt".

The Spanish inquisition was a deeply flawed attempt to secure the internal order of Spain after a divisive civil war, at a time when the nation feared an imminent attack by the Ottoman empire.

Lisbon is a highly flawed attempt to help Europe bridge that gap.

InBloom was a highly ambitious, though flawed attempt, to move from a rather inefficient, bureaucratic and often paper-bound set of records to an easy-to-use, accessible, cloud-based system that seamlessly moved with the child through her school years, as she changed classes, years, schools and even localities.

Admittedly the concept is a bit flawed: attempting to offset a season of programming about London by talking about London a bit more, albeit from a negative point of view.