Sentence examples for attempt to count from inspiring English sources

Advocates attribute the surge in part to a more aggressive attempt to count the state's homeless.

The tens of thousands of fragments there has been no attempt to count them—have been put away in boxes.

No one knows exactly how many people have exhausted their allotment, as the government does not attempt to count them.

But under the latest policy, it does not count private workers, "because of serious concerns about the accuracy of an attempt to count" them.

House Republicans have also been quick to call for investigations when they believed the bureau was withholding information or failing to make an attempt to count everyone.

New York City's first attempt to count the people who live on the streets of Manhattan arrived at a figure of 1,780 people, a number homeless advocates said was too low.

He attempts to count the eyelashes.

Voluntary reporting has been a significant constraint on past attempts to count police use of force.

Only one study, in the US, has attempted to count zip-related penile injuries.

The parks department attempts to count beachgoers because it has to, said Liam Kavanagh, the agency's first deputy commissioner.

The federal government had never attempted to count the poor, and Orshansky's paper proposed an ingenious and straightforward way of doing so.