Sentence examples for attempt to adopt a from inspiring English sources

But she was distraught when an attempt to adopt a fourth baby was thwarted when she was denied approval.

Compensation planning becomes more complicated as boards attempt to adopt a pay philosophy they believe aligns the interests of management and shareholders.

Madonna's attempt to adopt a second child from Malawi is expected to be ruled on by a Malawian court on Friday, Reuters reported.

Overseeing prosecutors, including the Crown Prosecution Service's Serious Fraud Office, as it continues its attempt to adopt a tougher stance on financial crime.

In the final episode of the third series, Mitchell discovered that he and Cameron had been unsuccessful in their attempt to adopt a second child.

The millennium development goals were launched 10 years ago as a bold attempt to adopt a directed and targeted approach to development.

Finally, for an attempt to adopt an approach that is neither ambitious or modest, but somewhere between the two, see McDowell 2006.

Second, as with past efforts to discredit evolution, the intelligent design movement also often speaks in explicitly religious terms, thus compounding the religious message that any reasonable observer would take from the attempt to adopt an intelligent design policy in the public schools.

The bottom line is that never before has EPA attempted to adopt a Section 111 d) standard for a source category it is regulating under Section 1112.

She said, however, that although she had been attempting to adopt a healthier regime since taking office in 2010, her illness was partly the cause of her weight dropping nearly two stone.

Much of the show's dialogue is in Spanish, but the cast has been drawn from across North and South America, and the actors' attempts to adopt a Colombian accent have not always been successful.