Sentence examples for attempt to throw the from inspiring English sources

Liston later complained that the Black Muslims, a separatist sect, had threatened him in an attempt to throw the fight.

Brands such as Converse, Miller, Spotify and hundreds of others attempt to throw the best parties and – inevitably – give away lots of free stuff.

Fifty-two balls with bells embedded within them will also be required for the Goalball competition, in which blind athletes attempt to throw the specially adapted balls into their opponents' goal.

Having recruited a number of youths from a neighborhood coffeehouse, he gave his team an English name — the Black Stockings — in an attempt to throw the Sultan's detectives off the track.

Nonetheless, officials from several countries said that the deal, negotiated with the leaders of Turkey and Brazil, was a deftly timed attempt to throw the sanctions effort off track.

Alphonsi has abandoned her attempt to throw the shot for Great Britain in this year's Olympics in favour of breaking new ground for ITV as a female pundit analysing the men's Six Nations.

In 1836 they ran three presidential candidates (Daniel Webster, Hugh L. White, and William Henry Harrison) to appeal to the East, South, and West, respectively, attempting to throw the election into the House of Representatives.

Following the game where both sides attempted to throw the match, national officials have told their Olympic team leaders and players to make a public apology.

Then in the next event, he fouled on all three attempts to throw the discus, dropping him into last place in the field.

Once, when released from his institution to come out to lunch with my father, he attempted to throw the chambermaid out of the window.

Attempting to throw the ball out to a team-mate, Flem obviously thought better of it, yet in changing his mind he signed his own death wish.