Sentence examples for attempt collapsed from inspiring English sources
The attempt collapsed Friday, a few hours after Nimoy died.
They were presumably less pleased when the coup attempt collapsed.
A first attempt collapsed in 2004 amid corruption charges involving a proposed leasing deal with Boeing.
The last attempt collapsed in July 2008, when India insisted on more protection for its farmers against sudden surges in imports than America was willing to accept.
Two months after a first attempt collapsed in ineptitude and scandal, Venezuela will try again on Sunday to hold the biggest vote in its history, a "mega-election" in which thousands of candidates, from President Hugo Chavez down to state legislators, are competing.
A SELLOUT, ON SECOND ATTEMPT The Rockies sold out all three World Series games at Coors Field on Tuesday, one day after their first attempt collapsed in a computer-system crash caused by people trying to fool the system to hoard tickets.
The choreography is a chaotic melange of samey moves that, when something different is attempted, collapse through lack of discipline and style.
A 40,000-piece jigsaw created for a world record attempt has collapsed, leaving the craftsman who made it the task of putting it back together.
The maintenance worker survived the intial beating and managed to stumble into the staff quarters of the hotel after the attack but collapsed despite attempts by staff to help him.
(Johnson) Alighiero Boetti: 'La Forza del Centro' (through March 23) This splendid show presents some of the most intensely eye-catching of all Conceptual artworks: numerous examples of the vivid embroidered arazzi — word squares — that Boetti commissioned from Afghani embroiderers in an attempt to collapse time, space and cultural difference.
In Swinford, Pell watched a skinny dark girl in a leather jacket and wool hat bunch an infant to her chest and attempt to collapse, one-handed, an uncollapsing stroller before tossing the thing, splayed and sideways, into the bus's undercompartment.
