Sentence examples for a large-scale attempt from inspiring English sources

Steps in the early 1990s to liberalise the economy after decades of failure under the programme Burmese Way to Socialisation, a large-scale attempt at central economic planning, were largely unsuccessful.

Signs increasingly point to a large-scale attempt by some prominent voices to delegitimize Mueller before he is even able to draw final conclusions about Trump.

José Antonio de Gabriel, the deputy chief of the European Union's election observer mission, said the electoral system had enough safeguards against any large-scale attempt at fraud.

For now, the 2014 Gay Games will be a test run of a large scale attempt to align sexual identity with environmental values.

In late 1796, after prompting from representatives of the United Irishmen (a society dedicated to ending British rule of the Kingdom of Ireland), the French Atlantic Fleet launched a large scale attempt to invade Ireland, known as the Expédition d'Irlande.

WASHINGTON — America's top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.

The Syrian military said it would use Palmyra as the staging ground for just such a campaign, but it remains to be seen whether it has the manpower to attempt such a large-scale effort, debilitated as it is by five years of civil conflict.

Military police who would be called on in case of a riot or other large-scale attempt to cross the border would likely remain, along with support troops, helicopter units and other specialized troops.

It's the first large-scale attempt at running a public health campaign in the U.S. on a mobile device in this manner.

The first large-scale attempt to rid a malaria-endemic area of indigenous mosquitoes had not succeeded, but it did free Sardinia from malaria.

Though there are numerous case studies and reports of co-selection for antibiotic resistance by biocides and metals [ 5, 43, 54], our study is the first large-scale attempt to gather a broader understanding of their co-selection potential in bacteria.