Sentence examples for and attempt to capture from inspiring English sources

Ansai was himself intensely nationalistic: he instructed his disciples that if Confucius and his great disciple Mencius were to come to Japan at the head of an invading army, the students would be obliged to don their armour and attempt to capture both sages.

We focus on product innovation as reflecting the characteristics of activities in the manufacturing industry and attempt to capture product innovation performance.

Conventionalist definitions take art's cultural features to be explanatorily fundamental, and attempt to capture the phenomena —revolutionary modern art, the traditional close connection of art with the aesthetic, the possibility of autonomous art traditions, etc. — in social/historical terms.

It was Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, the Abbasid governor of Ifriqiya, who first made plans to invade the island in force and attempt to capture it and Sardinia in 752 753, but he was thwarted by a Berber rebellion.

Successful pathogens compete with the host for essential metabolites and attempt to capture its primary metabolism.

We include formal and informal welfare resources and services and attempt to capture the overall interaction between actors [ 29] to assess possible synergies or gaps.

Working with him over many years, addressing challenges and attempting to capture opportunities for the city, has been a pleasure.

HV It's spring, so that must mean it's time for Springwatch, when the BBC Natural History Unit decamps outdoors and attempts to capture British wildlife going about its business.

Much like The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it deals with the loss of childhood innocence and attempts to capture a world at war through the eyes of a child.

The letters to the society record the march of science from the earliest blood transfusions, and attempts to capture lightning, to the confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity, the discovery of DNA and Stephen Hawking's first musings on black holes.

The Yemeni official told me that there was no thought of blockading the highway and attempting to capture al-Harethi and his passengers, because he had evaded earlier attempts and because "it was suspected that they were going to a target".