Sentence examples for attempt to ignite from inspiring English sources

Look for the Rangers to attack more frequently up the middle in an attempt to ignite their offense.

Here Rose's blunt attempt to ignite a sexual spark with Avery, as they sit next to each other in the theater's seats, becomes emblematic of the way all three characters remain tone-deaf to one another's yearnings, sensitivities, frustrations.

Joe Girardi went into managerial overdrive between games, moving lineups around in a desperate attempt to ignite a spark, but his tight frown in the dugout told the story of the series.

During the afternoon fighting spread along the whole Embarcadero, but was especially hot on the slopes of Rincon Hill, where strikers repeatedly set fire to grass and brush in an attempt to ignite warehouses.

The senator, who has filed or helped sponsor bills that include some aspects of his plan, has been newly energized by the wave of anxiety that followed the failed attempt to ignite explosives aboard a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.

The document, read to jurors by one of Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers, was a "substitution" agreed to by prosecutors rather than having Reid brought from prison in Colorado where he is serving a life sentence for his attempt to ignite a bomb in his shoe on American Flight 63 on Dec. 22, 2001.

But attempts to ignite an uprising in Sudan have thus far failed to generate mass participation.

Previously it had attempted to ignite a sectarian war by bombing packed churches.

The group hasn't struck there since it attempted to ignite sectarian tensions with a series of church bombs on Christmas Day 2011.

A1 Possible Plea in Bomb Plot Richard Reid, accused of attempting to ignite explosives hidden in his shoes aboard a trans-Atlantic flight, filed a motion saying he intended to plead guilty to all charges against him.

Luckily, alert flight attendants and passengers, echoing the heroism of those who went down fighting on United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, subdued the man as he apparently attempted to ignite the material.