Sentence examples for almost no attempt from inspiring English sources

He has made almost no attempt to fulfill that promise.

The fighters, many of whom are little more than boys, made almost no attempt to seek cover during their advance.

There is almost no attempt to assess the king's feelings at critical junctures, such as the death of his brother or his marriage.

Successive Afghan governments have made almost no attempt to hold anyone to account for the abuses of the past three decades.

This author then goes on to highlight a book called We, the Accused by Ernest Raymond and says: Perhaps it even … gains something from the clumsy long-winded manner in which it is written; detail is piled on detail, with almost no attempt at selection, and in the process an effect of terrible, grinding cruelty is slowly built up".

Despite this general trend, there is almost no attempt by local tech companies to engage them in their actual careers.

However, there is only limited amount of experimental information available on entrained fractions and almost no modelling attempts for their evaluation.

Influenza surveillance information on the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is available, but almost no studies attempted to estimate the total number of deaths attributable to H1N1 flu.

For other hormones, there have been almost no published attempts to evaluate paired serum and saliva correlations in the ante- or postpartum.

In many cases sexual arousal seems to have been almost incidental, with no attempt to achieve orgasm.

For years, school administrators and union leaders have defeated almost any attempt at teacher measurement, partly by pointing to the limitations.