Sentence examples for attempt to wind from inspiring English sources
It's an attempt to wind up Hammond, as he brings his beloved Mustang to the picturesque Cheddar Gorge.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young delivered powerful speeches into the night on every aspect of the bill, moving a series of amendments to attempt to wind it back.
Durkan said his party would not tolerate Trimble and the Ulster Unionists' attempt to wind the clock back on reforms brought in by the Agreement, such as on policing.
But pre-20th century English culture should not dominate the syllabus: Gove's attempt to wind the clock back overlooks the myriad identities of the children now populating British schools.
Even Suárez's lawyer, Peter McCormick, acknowledged he could not sustain Suárez's case that the player pinching Evra was an attempt to "defuse" the situation, rather than, as the commission found, an attempt to wind the United player up.
Prince William is the British forces' most high-profile officer (we'll come to his brother later), so dispatching him to the islands in this anniversary year was bound to be read as an elaborately pointless attempt to wind up the already wound-up Argentina – and it has predictably succeeded.
I will miss his brazen attempts to wind me up, attempts that often succeeded.
Barton meanwhile attempted to wind up Rangers' rivals Celtic before their meeting on 10 September by suggesting their manager Brendan Rodgers was having a "mid-life crisis".
He did make attempts to wind back Whitlam's signature free education reforms – although these were successfully fought by an organised student movement.
Earlier this week Wanderers appeared in the high court over a £2.2m unpaid tax bill to HM Revenue and Customs and, despite the tax authority's attempts to wind them up, they were given a five-week adjournment.
John Mason, an SNP MSP who is opposed to same-sex marriage, called for both sides in the debate to use more balanced language rather than attempting to "wind up the other side and upset the other side to get a reaction".
