Sentence examples for a sustained attempt from inspiring English sources

"America has experienced a sustained attempt by a hostile power to feed and exploit our country's divisions," Mr. Bush said.

– forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s. 4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan, part of a sustained attempt by the British government in Westminster to ethnically cleanse the Highlands and eliminate Gaelic culture.

He both celebrated and despaired of them, and his work essentially represents an ongoing investigation into problematic relationships – between the conflicting sides of the self; men and women; races and societies; competing ideologies; nature and technology; high and low culture; language and meaning – and a sustained attempt to carry out this investigation in an original, meaningful way.

Hopefully Saturday Mash-up! is the start of a sustained attempt by the broadcasters to make children's weekend television work, but given that even a successful show could struggle to beat Saturday Kitchen in a ratings battle, Ofcom should not shy away from providing extra encouragement.

He said since he first became an MP he has not seen a sustained attempt to change what is "holding this country back".

"There had never been a sustained attempt to really get a handle on all the material, or make it widely known and accessible," said Wendy Scheir, director of the New School archives and special collections.

Out of the window went any sustained attempt to assess Motion's careful placing of Larkin in post-war English poetry.

It is clear that dissident republicans are determined to attempt a sustained attack on peace and stability in Northern Ireland".

Or give up and make a serious and sustained attempt at redirecting my working life.

Ōhashi Ryōsuke's thesis, advanced already in his landmark German anthology, Die Philosophie der Kyōto-Schule (1990, revised edition 2012), is that the Kyoto School should be understood as a group of thinkers involved in a pluralistic yet cooperative and sustained attempt to think on the basis of an idea of "nothingness" or "absolute nothingness".

America is experiencing the sustained attempt by a hostile power to feed and exploit our country's divisions.