Sentence examples for a frustrated effort from inspiring English sources

That desire is beautifully portrayed, a humid urge that embodies both yearning for a lost mother and a frustrated effort to compete with, and come closer to, his remote father.

The exhaustion that had overwhelmed her from an afternoon spent at the telephone in a frustrated effort to corner some unattached male vanished with the lilt of a new hope - but when the gentleman arrived, he was dressed in tweeds.

With that in mind, another senior administration official said, the last thing the president wants is to provide more photo ops of himself golfing with Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, as he did this summer in a frustrated effort to resolve the torturous fight over raising the debt ceiling.

In the lung, repeated acute injuries provoke the cell death of AECs and subsequently increase the proliferative and migratory capacity of AECs in a frustrated effort of lung repair.

Korean officials saw the deal as a significant turning point in an often frustrated effort to privatize Korea Telecom.

Still, it marked a significant moment of capitulation in the Obama administration's largely frustrated effort to dismantle counterterrorism architecture left behind by former President George W. Bush.

After years of frustrated effort, the partners suddenly changed course.

Dreams of frustrated effort follow suit.

Socrates on trial tells of his frustrated effort to learn from poets.

Similarly, Gregory (1918) argues that dreams involving frustrated effort or thwarted intentions arise when the dream fails to provide the requisite imagery.

After more than a decade of frustrated efforts, researchers have finally pulled off a genetic engineering first, creating a strain of mice with a nearly complete copy of human chromosome 21.