Sentence examples for attempt to ground from inspiring English sources

After losing an attempt to ground D.H.L. Airways in 2001, U.P.S. and FedEx successfully lobbied Congress in April to force the Department of Transportation to hear their case.

Habermas's attempt to ground patriotism in an attachment to universal liberal principles is also associated with what is at times referred to as cosmopolitan patriotism, which seeks to construct a postnational identity based on the recognition of democratic values and human rights as conceptualized within a particular constitutional tradition.

For instance, Dretske [1981] and Barwise and Seligman [1997] attempt to ground information, understood as factual semantic contents, on environmental information.

Virtue ethicists have eschewed any attempt to ground virtue ethics in an external foundation while continuing to maintain that their claims can be validated.

So although Lotze himself took refuge in a quasi-Platonic account, some neo-Kantians pushed farther in the attempt to ground value in some account of the nature of consciousness itself.

More promising, perhaps, is the attempt to ground value not in the responses of an individual valuer, but in those of a particular group (Brogaard and Smith 2005; Wong 2008).

Ireland launched one further attack, Healy knocking on in attempting to ground for the score.

Some have attempted to ground obligations to keep promises on the fact that when one makes a promise, one raises expectations in the one to whom the promise has been made.

Just before the break Sexton's magnificent break from the edge of his own 22 ended with Heaslip being forced into touch at the corner flag by Evans as he attempted to ground.

New Yorkers should be offended by Mr. Lazio's attempt to exploit ground zero images for political gain.

The plan appeared to be an attempt to regain ground lost to Clinton, as she took more ambitious positions on climate change.