Sentence examples for attempted check from inspiring English sources

On March 28 , 1950 during a playoff game against the Leafs, Howe was nearly killed as he mistimed an attempted check on Toronto's Ted Kennedy, causing him to slam head first into the boards.

They attempted to check in with the F.D.N.Y. chiefs present, but were rebuffed.

Some attempted to check personal software and internet connections but the fault lay with the Revenue's own overloaded system.

When James Clerk Maxwell discovered (in 1865) that his kinetic theory suggested this result, he found it difficult to believe and attempted to check it experimentally.

Lindros was injured by Nashville's Vladimir Orszagh, on an attempted hip check along the boards just inside the Rangers' blue line.

— The docket in front of Justice Mark G. Farrell one recent Tuesday afternoon looked like a routine roster of small-time crime: petty larceny, attempted burglary, check forgery.

Many, including West and Elliott, attempted to check out – through Asic and online searches – the investment companies that had stung them.

Cotler writes that "wine merchants once attempted to check the popularity of coffee in France by starting a rumor that it was an anaphrodisiac".

He attempted to check in to the hotel he would be staying in for the duration of the programme, clearly a painful and frustrating experience that saw him unable to utter a single word.

In this paper, it is attempted to check if one of the constituents of price discovery mechanism, informational efficiency, has been achieved in gold exchange-traded funds' market.

Ninety-two-year-old Pearl Thompson was a student at Shaw University in 1942 when she attempted to check out a book from the Olivia Raney Library in Raleigh, North Carolina.