Sentence examples for an attempt to construct from inspiring English sources

It was an attempt to construct and create objects; it experimented with them.

The text in question is Syntactic Structures, "part of an attempt to construct a formalised general theory of linguistic structure".

I hope some future sexologist or statistician will mine them in an attempt to construct a snapshot of London's sex lives.

The same goes for the HapMap's successor, the 1000 Genomes Project, which is an attempt to construct an even larger genetic catalog.

In an attempt to construct more interesting molecules, it was thought to generate chemically hybrid compounds, blending a portion of VX809 merged to the thiazole scaffold.

The Labour government may be doomed, but the absurdist regime that it inflicts upon us – in an attempt to construct the perfectly ordered society – has life in it yet.

After William died in 1970, that editor revealed the message along with a reprint of the piece: "The Voynich MS was an early attempt to construct an artificial or universal language of the a priori type. Friedman". Friedman

It's an ambitious attempt to construct a city-wide memory bank of the darkest period in Budapest's history.

The idea of policy within this community is of a rational process of decision making, " a collective attempt to construct a policy in order to address some evident problem" [ 32].

The Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia in 1975 and broke families apart as they forced the entire population to work in the countryside in a bizarre attempt to construct an ultra-Communist agrarian society.

Sociologists Peter Berger and Samuel Huntington suggest that Opus Dei is involved in "a deliberate attempt to construct an alternative modernity," one that engages modern culture while at the same time is resolutely loyal to Catholic traditions.