Sentence examples for attempt to cull from inspiring English sources

A climate-change sceptic who was embarrassingly foiled in his attempt to cull badgers (he protested that the creatures had "moved the goal-posts"), Mr Paterson should never have had the job in the first place.

The six-day hunt had been alternately hailed as an attempt to cull a bear population that had grown to dangerous proportions and lambasted as a cruel exercise in human vanity.

Similar distortions surround the department's refusal to establish meaningful marine reserves, its attempt to cull buzzards on behalf of pheasant shoots, and its determination to allow farmers to start dredging streams again, turning them into featureless gutters.

Adapted from a play, the film tells the story of faculty at a rural school who attempt to cull funds from authorities by masquerading an illiterate coppersmith as the school's English teacher.

The only thing new here, from a legal standpoint, is the scale on which the F.B.I. and N.S.A. are apparently attempting to cull antiterrorism leads from that data.

Over the weekend, making one of my periodic attempts to cull our out-of-control bookshelves, I pulled down a vintage copy of something called "We, the People: The Drama of America," by Leo Huberman, with illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton.

The only thing new here, from a legal standpoint, is the scale on which the F.B.I. and N.S.A. are apparently attempting to cull anti-terrorism leads from that data..

Both men support Greenpeace's decision not to pursue Japan's whaling fleet across the freezing waters of the Southern ocean this year as it attempts to cull around 1,000 whales in the name of scientific research.

By Hendrik Hertzberg June 12 , 2012Over the weekend, making one of my periodic attempts to cull our out-of-control bookshelves, I pulled down a vintage copy of something called "We, the People: The Drama of America," by Leo Huberman, with illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton.

I can't stand by Rihanna's decision to release this song -- if she's indeed going to get back together with this guy, she shouldn't attempt to immediately cull a profit from it -- but I will say that I think this situation is more complex than I, and perhaps many others, initially considered.

Rock star Brian May has welcomed a Welsh government decision to shelve plans to cull badgers as part of an attempt to rid cattle of bovine TB.