Sentence examples for an abortive effort from inspiring English sources

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

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

After an abortive effort to get private companies to put up much of the development costs, Galileo has been financed almost entirely by the European Union since 2007.

One theory is that she is paranoid and sees Yunus as a threat, especially since he made an abortive effort to enter politics in 2007.

Head of the fascist Blueshirts from 1933, he lost most of his remaining prestige in an abortive effort to aid Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1936 39) and died disgraced.

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.

…other nationalists in an abortive attempt to kill French guests at a banquet.

I already made an abortive attempt – years ago I bought an alto sax.

It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.

William Golding's new novel tells of an abortive attempt to sail to Australia in about 1814.

In "The Missed Marriage," Giuseppe Bonaviri tells of a brother's abortive effort to find a suitor for an unmarried sister.