Sentence examples for an extraordinary attempt from inspiring English sources

But now with "Sesame Street" there is an extraordinary attempt to use the medium as a tool of instruction.

Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Westminster, said: "This is an extraordinary attempt by Westminster to bully Scotland.

Officials working for Tory minister Eric Pickles have been accused of an extraordinary attempt to suppress internal government emails – on the grounds that publishing such correspondence could lead to unwelcome "political and media exposure".

Were such a shortfall to occur, it would amount to a major disappointment in what was seen as an extraordinary attempt to compensate thousands of people quickly and generously for one of the worst catastrophes on American soil.

The "irascible and headstrong mathematician from Tuscany," Galileo, was the best-known member of the group, devoted to "an extraordinary attempt to document all of nature -- both of the Old World and the New -- in visual form".

Criminal justice experts say the case is an extraordinary attempt to hold a gun seller responsible for the ultimate use of the gun, even if the weapon changed hands several times before it reached the killer.

Waltz With Bashir is his extraordinary attempt to unlock his memories, to uncover the past and lay it to rest.

It remains to be seen if we remember Rio for its "polyclinic" (whose equipment is to be donated to local healthcare organisations), or its extraordinary attempt to find 5000 medical volunteers, or for the very specific challenge it faces of dealing with fears about Zika or polluted water.

Just now we were shelled again by Georgian Grad missiles.' But amid the chaos, one thing seemed clear - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's extraordinary attempt to reconquer the separatist region of South Ossetia appeared to be unravelling, as Russian planes bombed ever deeper into Georgia and his troops were sucked into street-to-street fighting.

When his grandfather returned from the gulag, his own son pushed past him, not recognising the shabby old man sitting on the stairs.The author highlights some extraordinary attempts by gulag inmates to make psychological and moral sense of their fate.

Cinderella's stepsisters go to extraordinary attempts to win the prince in the original Grimms version of the tale, slicing off parts of their feet to fit the golden slipper - to no avail, in the end, because the prince spots the blood spilling out of the shoe.