Sentence examples for a prolonged attempt from inspiring English sources

During the journey, Wade murders two of his captors, and he makes a prolonged attempt to reason or bully Dan into letting him go.

The £10m Christmas gift for Goldman was the culmination of a prolonged attempt by the US firm to avoid paying national insurance on huge bonuses for its bankers working in London.

A prolonged attempt to set the fractures on his right arm, done without anesthetic, was unsuccessful; he received an operation on his broken leg but no treatment for his broken left arm.

The Trafalgar Square poll tax riot marking its introduction on 31 March 1990 included a prolonged attempt by demonstrators to get into Downing Street, the official papers reveal.

The object of a prolonged endeavor.

In a prolonged attack, fight back".

Match referee David Boon said the ball-tampering charge was warranted, but also that it "was not part of a deliberate and/or prolonged attempt to unfairly manipulate the condition of the ball".

However, it was also supposed that a continuous and prolonged attempt to reduce the core temperature may add additional stress and reduced the survival rate [41].

It was supposed that a continual and prolonged attempt to reduce the core temperature added additional stress and reduced the survival rate [41].

"I am also satisfied that this was not part of a deliberate and/or prolonged attempt to unfairly manipulate the condition of the ball, and that the imposition of a fine of 50% of his match fee is appropriate considering the circumstances".

In 1885, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle noted that a project for a soldiers' and sailors' monument in Brooklyn had been seriously delayed by a prolonged and unsuccessful attempt to engage the now-famous Saint-Gaudens.