Sentence examples for an imperfect attempt from inspiring English sources

Judge Gilmore, for instance, said Mr. Guerinot "made an imperfect attempt to avoid conviction and death".

She knows that even an imperfect attempt will bring her more points than playing it safe.

Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.

Government security agencies are now the front-line insurance policies in which politicians have lavishly invested in an imperfect attempt to save citizens from attack.

But perhaps even the most banal TV output will be viewed in a kindlier light from billions of miles away, reduced to what it is in essence: an imperfect attempt to make a connection across empty space.

Third, the trial court equated an arguably imperfect attempt to carry out Revlon duties with a knowing disregard of one's duties that constitutes bad faith.

"New Multitudes" is an earnest, imperfect attempt to extend Guthrie's legacy.

But as the movie's heroine might say, even a slightly imperfect attempt is better than the alternative.

The Kyoto pact was seen in many countries as a courageous if imperfect attempt to come to grips with an impossibly complex and uncertain threat.

In Yemen, optimists laud the dialogue process as a successful — if messy and imperfect — attempt to forge a more representative political system.

Even as kids get older, they don't expect to master, say, video games or new sports moves, without at least a few imperfect attempts.