Sentence examples for about the attempt from inspiring English sources

ANNALS OF CRIME about the attempt at Russel Sage's life.

There's nothing new about the attempt to divide "benefit claimants" from deserving working people.

A member of his staff talked about the attempt to make the abolition of the estate tax permanent.

So it's about the attempt to dramatise, if you like, the tendency to overblow played against the tendency to undercut.

The New Yorker, May 15 , 1937P. 95 ANNALS OF CRIME about the attempt at Russel Sage's life.

There was nothing subtle about the attempt to flatter — its obviousness was "over the top," Sengupta says.

The Archbishop of El Salvador, Monseñor Óscar Romero, was hopeful about the attempt (several of us who made up the new government were members of Catholic organizations).

It's also a film about the attempt to make that film, and its frame-breaking, frame-multiplying reflexivity lends the small-scale action a vast, world-embracing scope.

REPORTER AT LARGE about the attempt to gather members of the 1924 class of the Moravski Ostrava Gymnasium to a reunion in Prague, in 1950.

Here… This week in the magazine and here online (see Fact), Peter Hessler writes about the attempt to dam the Yangtze River, in China, which, since….

Witnesses have already informed investigators about the attempt by Mr. Sullivan to postpone the internal audit, people involved in the case said.