Sentence examples for attempt to name from inspiring English sources

/ Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name".

8 opponents going at the people who funded or supported it in an attempt to name and shame them.

Chinua Achebe has declined the Nigerian government's attempt to name him a Commander of the Federal Republic.

Achebe has twice rejected the Nigerian government's attempt to name him a Commander of the Federal Republic – a national honour – first in 2004, and second in 2011.

That is, when the baby says something like "ba ba ba," the parent may see it as an attempt to name something and may propose a word in response.

Extending the meme that led the public to attempt to name a polar vessel Boaty McBoatface, viewers had voted pre-transmission for the show's window on the digital world to be baptised Screeny McScreenface.

He was obsessed by questions of "diversity", needing three attempts to name an attorney-general, for example.

Until then, all attempts to name the new movement (or to agree there was one) had met with stiff resistance.

In May, Khamenei once again blocked Ahmadinejad's efforts to accumulate power, forcing him to back down after he attempted to name himself acting minister of oil.

On Monday, after months of political turmoil, legislators repeated the same unsuccessful pattern from four previous attempts to name a new prime minister.

Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, called for the Senate to "delay, delay, delay" if President Obama attempts to name a successor.