Sentence examples for attempt to effect from inspiring English sources

With Jayawardene scuttling back for two, the keeper collected the throw from the boundary but then missed the stumps with his attempt to effect the run out.

It is a pity, though, that Tutu did not choose to attend the event and then attempt to effect a citizen's arrest on Blair as a war criminal.

Having directed an earlier movie set in Birmingham's black community, Penny Woolcock was called in by local gang leaders a couple of years ago to document an attempt to effect a truce there.

Recall the spectacular demise of Argentina's "immutable" currency peg to the U.S. dollar in 2001 after a futile attempt to effect a large-scale I.M.F.-imposed budget deficit adjustment in defense of that peg.

He also alienated the Legitimists by his friendly relations with the Bonapartists and the Bonapartists by an attempt to effect a compromise between the rival claimants to the monarchy.

But technology vendors can't and shouldn't attempt to effect this transformation alone.

Too many well-intentioned projects fail in their attempts to effect change because of their transience.

In the past, tensions between chancellors, mayors and board members, all of whom had their own political motivations, often crippled attempts to effect lasting change.

Frantic with worry and impatience at first; later he appears older, balder, with a thin moustache, utterly unable to respond to Jake's boorish attempts to effect a tearful reconciliation in the street.

Consequently, transformative mediation first attempts to effect change among disputants on emotional, spiritual and intellectual levels to eliminate obstacles to reconciliation.

Brasilia Center unsuccessfully attempted to effect a handoff of the Embraer to Amazonic Center at 16:53, by calling the Embraer in the blind.