Sentence examples for attempt to undo an from inspiring English sources
"It's about an attempt to undo an election, like Florida".
Those first few hundred pages focus on Jake's dry run at altering history, his attempt to undo an obscure domestic-violence spree in nineteen-fifties Maine.
Also troubling is the way that the higher courts attempt to undo a jury's verdict.
Trump's pick for the Environmental Protection Agency is Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt, an ardent opponent of Barack Obama's measures to curb climate change who has sued the EPA to block in an attempt to undo a key regulation to curb greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from coal-fired power plants.
In my book the quest to solve the clues is an attempt to undo a series of bad choices, to make amends – and this seems to be in the tradition of literary treasure hunts; often in the titles I've chosen, the discovery of treasure is a means of putting things to rights, whether it's restoring a family fortune or saving the world from the forces of darkness.
Attempts to undo a jury verdict on the basis of public comments by jurors have little track record of success.
The New York Philharmonic attempted to undo a cinematic wrong when in September it performed a reconstructed score of the film version of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
Attempting to undo a signature piece of legislation after it had come into force allowed Mr Obama to paint them as ideologues impervious to reason, debate or due process.
Rather than attempting to undo a tax cut that some Democrats voted for, and a few still support, the Democratic leadership seems content to force Mr. Bush and his party to stew in the juices they have cooked for themselves.
"The plaintiffs, through their proposed amendments, are attempting to undo a settlement that has already been reached between the parties," city lawyers say.
Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the panel, said the attempt to undo the triggers "reflects a total lack of seriousness".
