Sentence examples for abortive start from inspiring English sources

After an abortive start in the legal profession, Wilson attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins and taught history and political science at Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan and, beginning in 1890, at Princeton, his undergraduate alma mater.

Purchase and Hunter took a thrilling silver medal in the men's lightweight pairs at Eton Dorney on Saturday morning but earlier the race provided a moment of horrible fascination as Purchase's seat at the bow of the boat came loose in an abortive start, an element of peculiarly human farce intruding into the thrilling systemic efficiency of the British rowing team's greatest Olympic performance.

Beginning with the Dynabook proposed in 1971 by the Xerox PARC computer scientist Alan Kay, the idea has died aborning many times and has led to some of the Valley's most celebrated failures -- most memorably in two abortive start-ups, the Dynabook Corporation and the Go Corporation, and the debacle of Apple Computer's notorious Newton.

Six years after its abortive first production, Behzti still feels current and relevant.

An abortive attempt to start an urban institute at The New School.

Involved with the project is Christopher R.J. Knable, a consultant who oversaw an abortive effort to start a hotel chain and other businesses under the Cipriani banner for Cipriani International.

We aimed specifically to model the clinical setting of SE or frequent repetitive seizures in humans where abortive treatment will not start until after the seizures have started, thus we administered tDCS only after an overt clinical seizure was detected, and tested also the impact of tDCS on recurrent seizures triggered by PTZ reinjection.

The result is that electronic coupons are finally making a major impact, after almost a decade of abortive efforts and false starts.

After abortive attempts to make a start yesterday the Antigua Test was relocated in a desperate attempt by the West Indies Cricket Board to rescue another situation that reflects the chaotic organisation of the game in the Caribbean but also calls into question the preparations made by the cricket authorities.

In 1833 34 the first abortive Mazzinian uprisings took place in Piedmont and Genoa.

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