Sentence examples for attempt earlier from inspiring English sources

The move came after years of review, a partial ban in the mid-1990s (when millions of migratory bird deaths were linked to carbofuran), and an attempt earlier in 2009 by the chemical's manufacturers to delay further restrictions.

The move shows the growing opposition to D.C.'s taxi union, which is continuing its yet unsuccessful bid to regulate the popular on-demand cab service, after a very public online protest shut down the union's first attempt earlier in the summer.

Quintanilla, who fouled on a bunt attempt earlier in his at-bat, chose to swing.

The Tobruk Prime Minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, survived an assassination attempt earlier in the week when a convoy of cars he was travelling in was ambushed.

After Jarrett Ferguson ran twice for 16 yards, Warley redeemed himself after missing a field-goal attempt earlier in the quarter.

With 10 seconds left in regulation, Akers, who had missed a 33-yard attempt earlier, converted a 37-yard field goal to send the game into overtime.

A Kon-Tiki 2 attempt earlier this year foundered after bad weather forced the expedition to call the Chilean navy for rescue.

Huge clouds of smoke rolled off the giant slicks of Ron Adamowicz's 1981 Chevrolet Camaro as he prepared for a quarter-mile attempt earlier this month at New York's Lebanon Valley Dragway.

Los Angeles Superior Court judge Mitchell Beckloff ordered an investigation into their well-being following Paris's suicide attempt earlier this month, and after receiving a report he said he would be "taking no further action".

But indigenous and environmental groups, already incensed by the president's attempt earlier this year to tender a similarly pristine area farther south to foreign oil companies, have called for protests.

The News of the World today confirmed one of its reporters is currently suspended after his phone number was allegedly identified as the source of an unauthorised attempt earlier this year to access the voicemail of a public figure.