Sentence examples for aborted efforts from inspiring English sources

Nor has Huppenthal ever denounced Pearce and his fellow radical Arizona state legislators' aborted efforts to "nullify" federal laws.

I think that my own reading has evolved greatly since my first aborted efforts to read Virginia Woolf.

For instance, despite it being a condition of its £45bn taxpayer bailout in 2008, and numerous aborted efforts, RBS has still to offload its 300 Williams & Glyn branches.

He will succeed Mr. Simmons, whose two years in office have been accompanied by declining fee income and aborted efforts to expand abroad and take Nasdaq public.

Each of the last three elected mayors here have faced organized ouster campaigns — Mr. Suttle faced two aborted efforts before the third gathered enough signatures — and the two previous elected mayors left office early, one resigned and the other was recalled.

"It doesn't hurt that South Korea is in the middle of a string of aborted efforts at launching a satellite of their own; should Pyongyang succeed, it scores points in the ongoing inter-Korean rivalry, but also highlights what it sees as the hypocrisy of banning one Korea from doing what the other Korea does freely," he said.

Israel's heavily armored offensive into Ramallah in the West Bank and the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip were an "attempt to abort efforts to return the peace process to a positive course, represented by Zinni's visit," Mr. Maher said.

A12 Abortion for Rape Victim A retarded rape victim's fetus was aborted despite efforts of abortion opponents who appealed to the Florida Supreme Court.

In India, recently released census figures suggested that female fetuses were being regularly aborted despite efforts to restrict access to prenatal tests.

"We wanted a totally new law, and she aborted this effort," she said.

Denialism is part of the catechism that must be intoned by Republican candidates in the farcical election campaign now in progress, and in Congress, they are powerful enough to abort even efforts to inquire into the effects of global warming, let alone do anything serious about it.