Sentence examples for attempt used from inspiring English sources

In 1969 a first major attempt used air pressure on the face of a mole operating in sands and silts for the Paris Metro.

On Saturday morning, Armenian authorities, saying they suspected a coup attempt, used a favorite method of crowd dispersal: placing hand grenades and guns near some of the protesters as they slept, witnesses said, and then confronting them.

Their first attempt used a set of grippers made from a "memory" metal, an alloy that changes shape when heated by an electric current and then returns to its original form when the current is switched off.

Previous experiments used shorter bursts of more energetic x-rays, whereas this attempt used a lower energy level and a much longer period of bombardment.

The first attempt used brute force provided by the cruisers and Kerch to unsuccessfully tow her off.

Also, a very small number of those who made a quit attempt used any aid.

Another attempt, using subtler techniques, was approved in 2009.

He made a second attempt using pieces of an 18th-century Chippendale period clothes press.

Hardly a day goes by without an assassination attempt using a sticky bomb, a relatively new mode of attack.

"The first assassination attempt using a horseless carriage was in 1905, targeting the Ottoman sultan.

30 A similar attempt using the EGFR antibody panitumumab was studied in the PACCE trial.