Sentence examples for abortive efforts from inspiring English sources

Individually, they made abortive efforts to protect the boys.

The criticism, and his abortive efforts to continue working, caused him to attempt suicide in 1971.

Most of these abortive efforts are simple testaments to Pota's failure of imagination.

His heroin addiction has rendered him impotent and the plot concerns Holly's abortive efforts to save him from himself and the oddities they meet on the way.

After several abortive efforts over nearly three decades, Congress is taking the first steps this week toward the likely overhaul of the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service.

This new plan is the latest in a series of often abortive efforts to erode the Taliban from the bottom up.

Before this, there had been an abortive effort to shoot in an asylum.

An abortive effort to topple the independent government on Jan . 13 , 1991ended in bloodshed.

Take Britain's magnificent, if abortive, effort to detach the Ottoman Empire from the Central Powers.

To the telephone company they represent absentmindedness, to us, the abortive effort of some silly dreamer trying to get London.

In his book, Mr Talbott describes an abortive effort to persuade Pakistan not to reciprocate India's 1998 nuclear test.