Sentence examples for a welcome attempt from inspiring English sources

A former defence minister, Fukushiro Nukaga, is due to visit Seoul on January 4th to meet South Korea's president-elect, Park Geun-hye (see article)—a welcome attempt to mend ties frayed by disputes over islands known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.Mr Abe has also promised to strengthen security ties with America that were not always smooth under DPJ rule.

Money and Beauty is a welcome attempt to shake up staid views of the Renaissance.

There is a welcome attempt to reduce the amount of sugar that children consume.

Jonathan Schlefer's new book, "The Assumptions Economists Make," is a welcome attempt to sort through some of this confusion.

But Fleet is a welcome attempt to draw visitors to a part of Essex that is criminally overlooked.

The President's initiatives are a welcome attempt to confront the symptoms of racism, but the architecture of inequality needs to be addressed, and looking away won't help.

In September 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the commitment of £10 million for the development of academic links between India and the U.K. The gesture marked the beginnings of the U.K.-India EdUKIERI --ad Research Initiative (UKIERI --a belated but welcome attempt to reverse the slow erosion in academic exchange between the two countries over the past 2 decades.

Later, they rope audience members into the action, a zany event by Ailey standards, and part of Robert Battle's welcome attempt to take the repertory in new directions.

The study is a direct follow up from the study by Müller et al. 2010, and a very welcomed attempt to repeat previous findings in another system to obtain a better understanding of associations between genetic variation and behaviour, as well as to assess their generality.

Rachel Griffin, director of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, a charity that has worked with TfL on improving passenger safety, said: "While we welcome attempts to draw attention to the serious issue of sexual assault on public transport, it is not completely clear what the message of this video is.

Doughty no longer even attends matches and does not welcome attempts to change his mind.