Sentence examples for attempt faltered from inspiring English sources

Yet Ms. Winehouse's most recent comeback attempt faltered badly.

The third movement dramatizes an attempt to build, note by note, a solemn six-bar theme of funerary character; the first attempt falters after three bars, the second after five, the third after four, the fourth after three.

attempt in 2010 faltered.

But Mr. Magloire faltered in attempts to play with form or to structure space.

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Thursday's development was the latest humiliating twist in Mr Musharraf's faltering attempt to restart his political career since he returned to Pakistan last month after almost four years of exile in Dubai and London.

Shifting attention to the tribal areas on both sides of the border, the faltering attempt to assert government influence has vacillated between a scheme of top-down security and state control to one of negotiated surrender.

His son Rhys pops in to discuss A-levels and his drum'n'bass collection (my faltering attempt to find common ground earns the tart putdown: "Yeah, lots of the best records are from the 90s").

The police have much explaining to do – and will have to do better than yesterday's faltering attempt by the Met's QC to imply that hindsight was the main factor involved in the clear picture now emerging.

Kemp became a hero to the Reagan branch of the party and, in 1988, the year that George H. W. Bush won the White House, made a faltering attempt to run for President.

But one cautious attempt to do so has faltered.