Sentence examples for attempt to borrow from inspiring English sources

In the naked version, there is no attempt to borrow or locate the stock.

He would borrow her identity, though she never made an attempt to borrow his.

Often, autocracies attempt to borrow legitimacy by adopting the language of the constitutions of nonautocratic regimes or by establishing similar institutions.

They have been looking at research in the field and discovered a lot of trials that attempt to borrow the methodology of medicine by using control groups.

In Philadelphia, Mr. Bush will attempt to borrow the positive imagery long associated with such Democratic issues as education and the saving of Social Security and Medicare.

Like the equally prolific John Updike, Tyler's subject has been the everyday lives of middle-class America over more than half a century, her writing an attempt, to borrow Updike's phrase, "to give the mundane its beautiful due".

I believe I am only able to understand this statement having reported on war and attempted, to borrow from Ryle, to "adhere to fact".

They argued, as the African-Americans had, that biased federal loan officers had systematically thwarted their attempts to borrow money to farm.

Many worry that if their application for a mortgage is rejected by one bank, this would stay on their credit record and hinder further attempts to borrow.

With a five-year agreement, the U.S.T.A. now has the medium- term stability and clarity that should help as it attempts to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to finance further development of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

There was, however, criticism that this was exactly what the productions were – well-meaning but naive attempts to borrow ideas from the east and attach them to western forms.