Sentence examples for a timid attempt from inspiring English sources
It has also long had a reputation as being unmanageable: in 1999 its main campus was occupied for months by students protesting against a timid attempt to introduce fees.
(The curving internal street of the Time Warner tower, a timid attempt to engage the street life around Columbus Circle, echoes the pointless circular arcade that surrounds the lobbies at the base of Worldwide Plaza).
Eventually I tried, but it was a timid attempt, and I failed.
But on Sunday night, in the middle, there was a cry from the heart, a shadow and a timid attempt at political reconciliation.
They made a timid strike attempt in 2009, followed by a massive turnout this year.
But oh dear, oh dear – this timid attempt to bring in the "new politics" simply showed the old politics at its worst.
This leaves the National United Front, which won most of the seats in last year's rather timid attempt at elections, and whose members the British authorities were seriously coaching in the arts of government, with only one seat, although it got nearly a third of the total votes cast.
Shareholders have been stung by their apparent defeat at the hands of pro-management lobbyists late last year, when the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC), the main market regulator, put on seemingly eternal hold its (fairly timid) attempt to help shareholders propose candidates for election to the board.
(Dargis) 'EVAN ALMIGHTY' (PG, 89 minutes) Your average Sunday school lesson about Noah and the flood is likely to be funnier, smarter and more theologically coherent — to say nothing of cheaper to produce — than this drab, timid attempt to wring laughs from religion.
And she has obstructed even the most timid attempt by international agencies to censure the agencies of the state who are carrying out the latest crackdown on the group.
Maura, who is listed at five feet eight inches and a hundred and forty pounds (but looks plainly smaller) scampered around the court, easily breaking U.V.A.'s timid attempts at a press.
