Sentence examples for a wasted attempt from inspiring English sources

A suboptimal attempt is a wasted attempt and having failed, the chance of success declines with each subsequent attempt.

Any attempt seems like a wasted effort.

Regions built round dynamic knowledge economies not antiquarian Anglo-Saxon labels that would make a far greater contribution to modernising the UK than wasted attempts to apply neoliberal ideology.

Concomitantly, by culling the most defective organelles, PINK1-dependent mitophagy enriches the pool of healthy (or least defective) organelles, reducing aberrant ROS production and the loss of resources that would be wasted attempting to recover unsalvageable organelles [ 50].

When the buzzer sounded on the Nets' futility of a wasted fourth-quarter lead and wasted free-throw attempts to tie the game in the waning split-seconds, Stephon Marbury and the Phoenix Suns knew they had a vindicating 89-87 victoverover Marbury's former team.

The Brazilian Institute of Tax Planning calculates that a third of public funds are stolen or wasted".All attempts to solve [overspending] with a dramatic thrust will fail," says Antônio Delfim Netto, a pro-government congressman who rails against the "scandal" of an overgrown state.

Months will be wasted in attempts to form a new coalition, perhaps from the very same parties.

Most of the time is wasted when attempting to translate the shape information and when modifying the errors that arise during the manual work involved in the process.

Panesar removed Misbah for 31 as the Pakistan skipper was trapped lbw for the fifth time in the series and, for the fifth time, wasted a review attempting to overturn the decision.

Because the reader never for a moment buys this setup, a lot of Mr. Carey's impressive authorial energy is wasted in an attempt to vamp his way through Dial's and Che's back stories, which we learn in bits and pieces through a narrative that continually loops back on itself in little flashbacks.

This explains why even though Green stated explicitly that it is ridiculous to doubt the existence of a mind-independent world, he did not waste time attempting to prove or analyse the nature of its existence.