Sentence examples for attempt to rid from inspiring English sources

In an attempt to rid herself of Kadir, Jannat applied for sole custody of the children.

The killing had been a carefully planned attempt to rid themselves of an increasingly bothersome pre-adolescent child.

The hallmark of a Fox baseball telecast is an attempt to rid a slow-moving game of dead time.

The clinic sued, arguing in federal court last summer that the law was a thinly veiled attempt to rid the state of abortion, and thus was unconstitutional.

Gillard is now calling a leadership contest in an attempt to rid herself of this homme fatal once and for all – or die trying.

Nazi Germany launched its euthanasia project in 1939 in an attempt to rid the so-called Master Race of those deemed "unworthy of life".

For that reason they attempted to rid their works of any extra-visual association.

Or Stan O'Neal, whose attempts to rid Merrill Lynch of its fuddy-duddy image saddled the bank with $8bn of bad debts?

It appears recent attempts to rid the Commons of its unusually aggressive moth infestation by planting foul-smelling pheromone pellets around the building were in vain.

For a while there, the score was tilted in favor of the People, in their attempts to rid their grassy areas of goose droppings.

Mr. Mercier, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, contends that attempts to rid people of biases have failed because reasoning does exactly what it is supposed to do: help win an argument.