Sentence examples for attempt to stop from inspiring English sources

Their attempt to stop the van failed.

Why did nobody attempt to stop it?

Certainly they made no attempt to stop him.

How will Wikipedia soon attempt to stop tampering?

"After the failed attempt to stop Israeli settlement expansion, the administration gave up," Fayyad told me.

Copeland jumped in a futile attempt to stop another emphatic alley-oop dunk.

He has picketed the House of Lords over its attempt to stop Pinochet's extradition to Spain.

This "directive", taken at its fullest, is an attempt to stop that.

"This might be our best attempt to stop a purge," said one former Labour official.

The unprecedented scale of British smuggling overwhelmed Napoleon's attempt to stop Britain trading with continental Europe.

But like every other attempt to stop Reyes this season, it did not work.