Sentence examples for attempt to get close to from inspiring English sources

They did not attempt to get close to the convention site, which is heavily barricaded.

There was his hilarious attempt to get close to Pope John Paul II when he celebrated a special mass in the Irish village of Knock in 1979.

An invasion, really: driving, climbing, biking, motorcycling, tour-busing, clawing and hiking in an attempt to get close to a landmark that on some days seems as much tourist catnip as the Grand Canyon.

"It's an attempt to get close to some reality about Gertrude and Alice, but to acknowledge from the beginning that it is fictitious," hence the obviously inaccurate renderings of the paintings on the set.

Therefore, we attempt to get close to the solution iteratively.

"Ask CI Imam if he knows Mufti Qumar; if so attempt to get close to him".

The Knowledge Project was an attempt to get closer to the everyday life of engineers and to find ways of making engineer's search for knowledge more efficient.

Is it an imitation of his revered friend – an attempt to get closer to Keats by behaving as he does?

Will you, for example, choose to join the student council in an attempt to get closer to the dashing and noble (but terribly entitled) Sakuya?

Cohle, in an attempt to get closer to Ledoux, agrees to assist the Iron Crusaders in a raid on a projects stash house.

"He wanted to end the conflict with the north – marginalising former close confidants in an attempt to get closer to Khartoum and [Sudanese] President Omar al-Bashir," one insider told the Guardian.