Sentence examples for an effort to retrieve from inspiring English sources

Another photographer showed people apparently running towards a burning property in an effort to retrieve possessions.

So Mr. Morey started a small négociant, Morey-Blanc, in an effort to retrieve those wines for his portfolio.

Scott: In an effort to retrieve a stolen James Patterson book, I may have inadvertently broken the guy's nose with it.

The hand was flown to the F.B.I.'s laboratory in Quantico, Va., in an effort to retrieve fingerprints by using sophisticated scientific techniques.

The Haveeds said they visited the Khans in an effort to retrieve the videotape, but neither they nor the police found one.

If not an afterthought, it is an effort to retrieve a position that was forsaken when it was decided to take a gamble on the existing jury panel.

He hired a diver in a failed effort to retrieve it.

At one point, leftist Montonero guerrillas kidnapped and murdered a former President in a failed effort to retrieve the corpse.

No history of al-Qaeda can be other than a version of the truth.Yet this is still a worthy effort to retrieve Mr bin Laden from the shadows.

Whitmore has already funded a successful effort to retrieve the Journal as repayment of a debt to Milo's grandfather, and recruits Milo to lead an expedition to Atlantis as soon as he deciphers it.

Hunters are required to make a reasonable effort to retrieve all killed or crippled birds.