Sentence examples for attempt to take back from inspiring English sources

During the 1970's, the Quintynes and other community activists would sometimes march at The Corner with picket signs in a desperate attempt to take back their streets.

Maybe the topics that have seized professional historians' attention — family history, social history, women's history, cultural history, "microhistory" — constitute nothing more than an attempt to take back territory they forfeited to novelists in the eighteenth century.

The department's attempt to take back the plate "was a violation of lawful procedure and an error of law," Judge Peter B. Skelos of State Supreme Court in Nassau County wrote.

The trainer John Ward confirmed that Booklet would run next in the Blue Grass Stakes on April 13 at Keeneland and vowed that his colt would attempt to take back off the pace next time.

In a closet on the seventh floor, Mr. Baxter had installed huge, almost grotesque ivy vines that burst from the walls, symbolizing nature's attempt to take back the doomed building.

Maybe the topics that have seized professional historians' attention family history, social history, women's history, cultural history, "microhistory"—constitute nothing more than an attempt to take back territory they forfeited to novelists in the eighteenth century.

Two protesters were shot dead during clashes with police, who attempted to take back control of the city centre.

They were aggressively resisting seizures of their land and attempting to take back land that they claimed had once belonged to them.

Apple catching tutorial over with, we were plunged straight into a beach landing level, at a point in the story in which US troops are attempting to take back New York from fortified Chinese armed forces.

His attempts to take back the narrative are often unsuccessful in the face of a media machine racing in the opposite direction, something Mr. West witnessed up close during the various stages of the Bush debacle, which culminated in Mr. Bush calling the rapper's Katrina-related outburst "one of the most disgusting moments of my presidency".

However, the costs of privatisation have created a powerful counter-momentum in Europe (and even more so in Latin America) to bring services, resources and utilities back into the public sector: water in France, power in Germany, and transport in Britain (Newcastle is currently attempting to take back bus routes).