Sentence examples for attempt to listen from inspiring English sources
"But I think Clarence is making a real attempt to listen to people.
Bishop will travel on Thursday to Jakarta to begin talks with the Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, to settle the diplomatic dispute triggered by the publication of material on Guardian Australia and the ABC showing the attempt to listen in on the personal mobile phones of Indonesia's political elite.
Julia Gillard has signalled that countries may need to review their intelligence systems in the wake of revelations this week about Australia's attempt to listen in on the mobile phone of the Indonesian president, his wife and a group of prominent Jakarta MPs.
The force, due to leave in a year, has long been accused of spending too long in barracks, failing to patrol on foot, and making too little attempt to listen to the concerns of the people it is supposed to be there to protect.
One also sympathises with Kirk Douglas, whose attempt to listen to a record of Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 in Joseph Mankiewicz's A Letter to Three Wives (1949) is frustrated by a philistine radio producer (Florence Bates), who scratches the disc while trying to find her dreadful programme.
With this research, we attempt to listen and begin to offer some modest steps towards potential solutions.
Jerusha Lamptey, like many Muslims observing Ramadan, attempts to listen to a reciting of the entire Koran within the month.
Mr Cameron's strolls through corner shops, Mr Brown's attempts to "listen and learn", are both dismissed as spin.
Mr. Nunn said he attempts to listen, at least in part, to all of the unsolicited musical materials he receives, subjecting them to what he calls "the Volvo test".
In 2013 it was revealed that Australia's spy agencies had attempted to listen in on the personal phone calls of the then-president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and targeted the mobile phones of his wife.
Australia's bargaining power may have been weakened by revelations that it attempted to listen in on the private cellphone of the Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and inner circle.
