Sentence examples for attempt to stop a from inspiring English sources
"This might be our best attempt to stop a purge," said one former Labour official.
States that attempt to stop a person from revealing such unlawful behaviour are flouting international law.
The government's £20bn economic stimulus is a desperate attempt to stop a riptide of red ink feeding into deflation.
In 1765 the British Crown bought the island in an attempt to stop a thriving international smuggling trade.
No publisher, fearing that an unfavourable review, would attempt to stop a book critic quoting from some novel.
Cuba clamped down on international travel soon after the 1959 revolution in an attempt to stop a mass exodus of professionals leaving the Caribbean island for the US.
The snub follows the furore over another attempt to stop an award-winning British film, Bloody Sunday, from competing.
In her first case as a Justice, in August, she voted with the Court's three other liberals in an unsuccessful attempt to stop an execution.
Some of Judge Fletcher's rulings were reversed by the Supreme Court, including her attempt to stop an execution in 1998 of one of two men convicted in a murder.
Shareholders and customers of both Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines may want to consider the question as the two head to court next week in the government's first attempt to stop an airline merger since the industry was deregulated in 1978.
In an attempt to stop an escape of British troops from Montreal to Quebec, Montgomery sent a detachment to Sorel where the force briefly clashed with British troops.
