Sentence examples for attempt to affect a from inspiring English sources
Over the Christmas period, and in time for this column's final post next month, I'm going to attempt to affect a real and sustained improvement in the condition of my skin by not scratching.
But not since baseball's infamous 1919 World Series, when eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with a professional gambler, Joseph Sport Sullivanand and the New York gangster Arnold Rothstein to lose to the Cincinnati Reds, has there been a trial quite like the one that finished in London on Thursday, exposing an attempt to affect a match at the very pinnacle of the sport in question.
"Welcome to the club!" I continued, in an attempt to affect a sense of solidarity.
But unlike Reagan, Mr. Bush is so inured to the prerogatives of his life of soft landings that his attempts to affect a jus' folks geniality are invariably betrayed by nastiness whenever someone threatens to keep him from getting his own way.
"The officers were attempting to affect a felony arrest using less-than lethal weapons, including a distractive device, K9, and a Taser shotgun," Eden said.
The following day, the battalion left the line of departure and began to advance on its primary objective, which it reached in the early afternoon despite being held up while the tanks attempted to affect a creek crossing, and further delayed by stiff resistance.
Hospitals and a health care workers' union in New York plan to mount an advertising campaign to defeat spending cuts proposed by President Bush — their first attempt to affect national policy with a strategy they have used statewide.
A variety of linker segments were employed in an attempt to affect the physical properties of the polymeric cycloadducts such as Tg and solubility in order to tailor these materials for use in coating applications.
Traders at involved banks are accused of aligning their LIBOR estimates in an attempt to affect the final rate.
