Sentence examples for an initial stab from inspiring English sources

My colleagues and I at Northeastern University have taken an initial stab at answering these questions in a new study.

While steering away from the intricacies of tax policy, the report also took an initial stab at fashioning a more populist approach to corporate malfeasance and C.E.O.

To read his menu is to feel an initial stab of alarm: do slivers of raw albacore tuna really stand to benefit from bits of caper and a sauce of black olive and espresso?

After an initial stab that was too reliant on the source material, Mr. Harrison invented a subculture: the Society for Dynamic Obsolescence (S.D.O ., a community that has taken over an unnamed American town and set the clocks back permanently to 1955.

Here is an initial stab at such an adjacency condition.

But if this initial stab at a Web-enabled convention doesn't work, that will hardly spell its death.

For now, the reality is divided government, with a governor and legislature whose initial stab at cooperation, the repeal of House Bill 2, disintegrated in a wave of recrimination.

In spite of his renown, his initial stab at picture books, a story about a boy named Marco whose imagination transforms a simple horse-cart into a noisy and colorful parade, received 27 rejection notices.

The hired gun's initial stab at legal advocacy was to call her a liar, claiming she wasn't given a pregnancy test in jail.

Here is Tarn's initial stab at the project as well as some very early adjustments to characters and backgrounds.

It is as if he is using that initial stab of shame, turning it against those who sought to humiliate him.