Sentence examples for abortive escape from inspiring English sources

The abortive escape attempt took place during a private con ference between Mr. Melville and Mr. Crain.

After an abortive escape attempt to England, her father Hans remained in Amsterdam while her mother and she made for Switzerland, accompanied by the Dutch painter Max van Dam.

Jackson's brother Jonathan was among the four persons killed including the trial judge in an abortive escape and kidnapping attempt from the Hall of Justice in Marin county, California (Aug. 7, 1970).

In Edinburgh there were rumours of Orange plots and on 10 December the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, the Earl of Perth, quit the capital for Drummond Castle, planning an abortive escape to Ireland (he was later captured as he embarked for France).

Cantlie said they were "constantly threatened with death" and both were shot and wounded during an abortive barefoot escape attempt.

Desperate, he made his abortive flight to Varennes in June 1791.

What I didn't know was that after our first abortive attempt at escape the Colonel had issued an alert to all carriers to be on the lookout for any big man seeking passage out of the province.

Finally, after another abortive attempt to escape via South Africa, a UK-based asylum-seekers' organisation came to Gerald's aid and sent him money for an airfare to a safe country.

7. Earlier attempts to conduct war crime trials against the Germans in the aftermath of World War 1 and against the Turks for the massacre of Armenians were mostly abortive: Wilhelm II escaped and found refuge in the Netherlands.

Formation of the network must occur in the transition from abortive initiation to promoter escape.

It may interact with the template strand, which sets the location of the transcription start site, and may interfere with RNA exit, which leads to abortive initiation or promoter escape.