Sentence examples for attempt to grant from inspiring English sources

268 is not an attempt to grant such power.

However, they would rightly have cringed at Yoo's attempt to grant the executive with pretty much unlimited and potentially dictatorial power.

AFTER George Bush failed ignominiously in his attempt to grant amnesty to illegal residents in America, it is a bold politician who proposes a similar idea in Britain.

There'll be no rage-inducing section in the debates when two men discuss what reproductive rights they'll attempt to grant or deny women should they be elected.

Maduro had previously said he would rebuff any attempt to grant amnesty to the more than 70 opposition members facing charges for dissent.

While the Knicks are working with his agent, David Falk, in an attempt to grant Ewing's wishes, they will not make a bad trade.

It criticised his half-hearted attempts to grant more autonomy to local governments, vowing to be much tougher on the central bureaucracy.

As the parliamentary vote approached, the military attempted to grant itself some permanent political powers, a move that had sparked the current round of protests.

If the mother attempted to grant the brave soldier's wish, he might end up with the sort of fanesca people eat in Guayaquil.

Gen. Richard B. Myers's disparagement of war critics is an embarrassing display of hubris and runs contrary to the rights the United States is attempting to grant Iraq.

'Because said grant, so far as it relates to the locus in quo, was not within the delegated authority of the officer who attempted to grant the same.