Sentence examples for an effort to enter from inspiring English sources

A previous king failed in an effort to enter that vault in 1931.

"With pent up demand for employment, graduates must either take what they can get or gain experience in unpaid positions in an effort to enter the labour market".

Michael S. Ovitz, once a top Hollywood agent, pulled strings in an effort to enter a pool that was being offered to a group of rich investors and would eventually own a small piece of Google.

The F.T.C.'s complaint trod familiar ground but also raised questions about Intel's behavior in the graphics chip market, which is dominated by Nvidia and A.M.D. Since the agency filed its complaints, Intel has tempered an effort to enter the market for stand-alone graphics chips that go into home and business computers.

And GREE has launched an American entity, GREE International, as an effort to enter the American gaming market.

Last year, Intuit opened up the API to its management software, QuickBase, to developers who wanted to build web applications and businesses on top of the product, in an effort to enter a space already occupied by Salesforce.com, Google, and Amazon.

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.

They are isolated structures sticking out of railway stations that a commuter has to make a special effort to enter, in his opinion, and do not increase Mumbai's walkability.

In June of 2005, for example, state-owned China National Offshore Co. CNOOCC) made a bold effort to enter the U.S. business arena big time through an ambitious $18.5 billion offer to buy energy giant Unocal Union Oil off California).

The two had been accused of traveling with four other men to China after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in a failed effort to enter Afghanistan and fight with the Taliban against American forces.

Allegheny's problems are largely the result of internal accounting mistakes, investor skepticism over the short-term prospects of the electricity industry and a disastrous effort to enter the energy-trading business through the purchase and subsequent sale of trading operations from Merrill Lynch.