Sentence examples for attempt of one from inspiring English sources

The legislation was prompted in large part by the attempt of one criminal, Mark Christie, to change his name while in prison upstate.

Minkowski's paper examines the attempt of one 16th century astronomer to reconcile in a new way the tension between empirical observation and scriptural accounts of cosmology, and the controversy that ensued from this restructuring of exisiting astronomical models.

"Who in the course of a life has not endured, or witnessed, or participated in the attempt of one human being to have power over another?" asks Joan London in her cogent introduction to this haunting story of psychological cruelty.

Nish is the attempt of one veteran chef, Wayne Nish, to muddle through all of that, and it's an accomplished enough effort to make you root hard for it and for him.

In commerce, any negotiation puts buyer and supplier in direct conflict.1 Although the exchange of products and services can take place either with legal contracts or as informal agreements promoting the welfare of all participants, the main characteristic of negotiation is the attempt of one adversary to gain more.

Rather each religion expresses the attempt of one culture to explain life's mysteries and to provide spiritual connection for the people of that culture.

Alison Brooks's Newhall estate in Harlow: 'a determined attempt on one of the most difficult tasks in architecture'.

Bland had reported a past suicide attempt on one of her jail intake forms.

And so on the stand in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Friday, Ms. Noone, a 36-year-old schoolteacher on Long Island, endured the attempts of one of the Priors' lawyers, Steven Hyman, to poke holes in her version of events.

In "All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation" (Simon & Schuster), the journalist Rebecca Traister describes the attempts of one establishment, the Trowmart Inn, in Greenwich Village, to address this problem.

He documents the attempts of one of his subjects to cleanse her Google search results.