Sentence examples for a foolhardy attempt from inspiring English sources

Was that well-placed confidence on AIG's part, or a foolhardy attempt to ride out the storm?

Maybe it's a foolhardy attempt to recover lost youth, or a simple desire to share an experience with my son and daughter, who are also in the race, or even a sign of perverse addiction to pressured performance.

Later, as a volunteer in General Philip Schuyler's forces, he conducted a foolhardy attempt to take Montreal (September 1775), in the course of which he was captured by the British and held prisoner until May 6 , 1778

"Even Otmar Issing – one of the euro's founding fathers – warns that the latest plan for an EU-wide finance ministry with control over tax and spending is a foolhardy attempt to smuggle through political union, and breaches the basic fundamentals of modern democracy".

We had reached the point in the schedule where the young Mahler, wishing to show off to his school chums, attempts to demonstrate that he is as at home in the water as they are by plunging into the chilly waters of the lake in a foolhardy attempt to swim across it.

In a foolhardy attempt to bring back Cedric Diggory, whose father, Amos, still harbors bitterness toward Harry for his son's death, Albus and Scorpius steal a juiced-up Time-Turner from the Ministry of Magic which allows them to go back in time to the Triwizard Tournament.

Making a war movie about a desperate, foolhardy attempt to return a mother's last son to the bosom of his family is a very Steven Spielberg thing to do.

Essex returned from Ireland against the queen's orders, insulted her in her presence, and then made a desperate, foolhardy attempt to raise an insurrection.

The court heard the surgeon's actions were a "naive and foolhardy" attempt to relieve tension in the operating theatre during transplant operations in February and August 2013.

Sounds like the same story in Iraq -- where the U.S. has spent colossal sums and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and American lives in a vain and foolhardy attempt to shape Iraq's political ways.

A video of a meteorologist Eric Holthaus went viral when he demonstrated how quickly boiling water turned to snow in temperatures of -21 in Viroqua, Wisconsin A foolhardy chap from Minnesota decided to attempt this dangerous experiment of seeing what would happen if he urinated in -27C.