Sentence examples for attempt to back from inspiring English sources

But mostly there was an attempt to back a team that has been lost.

Bellow had made the changes in an attempt to back himself out of a corner.

But he made no attempt to back away from this imagery in the wake of the Galliano scandal.

The campaign will attempt to back up the charge by discussing declining test scores, safety concerns, and widening achievement gaps between rich and poor.

She then submitted a false version of one of her original statements which had been scrutinised by an expert witness in an attempt to back her own account of the story to the courts, said Ms Cheema.

Evans, 31, was suspended for a failed drug test for marijuana, although he has said he did not use marijuana and took a lie detector test in an attempt to back up his claim.

Allen: When the Internet smacked down the music industry there was an attempt to back-fill the holes that were left behind.

If Cameron's outburst seems unusual for a Hollywood director – and the filmmaker made a half-hearted attempt to back-track saying that he would "love to have a dialogue" with Beck, who he conceded, "may or may not be an asshole" – it is not altogether surprising.

Their best chance came midway through the period when their on-loan Manchester United midfielder Jimmy Davis crossed dangerously from the right and Eric Sabin made a mess of his attempt to back-heel the ball in from a yard out.

Again, this is a very helpful attempt to back-translate an abstract and simplified view on a compound-activity space into the operational world of medicinal chemistry in which those formerly isolated pairs appear in a broader context of more comprehensive chemistry campaigns.

While attempting to back away from security, the attacker detonated the vest.