Sentence examples for attempted to affect from inspiring English sources

In fact, in an effort to include all New Yorkers in this exciting project, we have attempted to affect every subway line in some way.

And while Coates mentions the role of the government in reparations – focusing attention on the languishing legislation proposed by Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, for example – he recognizes, as others who attempted to affect change throughout the history of this country have, that the moral will of all Americans must also be part of the solution.

The following day, the battalion left the line of departure and began to advance on its primary objective, which it reached in the early afternoon despite being held up while the tanks attempted to affect a creek crossing, and further delayed by stiff resistance.

"What he is doing is attempting to affect the investigation by threatening impeachment," said Arretche.

However, similar to interest groups, they attempt to affect public policy in their favour.

Over the Christmas period, and in time for this column's final post next month, I'm going to attempt to affect a real and sustained improvement in the condition of my skin by not scratching.

N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern said that he expected that information would be available online by the start of next season and that the venture would attempt to affect summer basketball programs by 2009.

So negative real rates may simply indicate that savers are incredibly cautious, and that businesses are reluctant to invest in new projects.Central banks attempt to affect this price by setting "base" rates (the term varies from country to country) at which they will supply liquidity to banks.

In turn, humans attempt to affect natural outcomes by appealing directly to the gods or God to take action.

Instead of predicting or reacting on rapid changes in the environment, firms attempt to affect their environment in order to control the outcome of their activities.

In Fig. 10, the latency of our proposed SEEQoSA is compared to those of other competing approaches (SAMI, CSSCPA, SOHRS, MCLSOA and MOMCC) with 10% of the nodes being malicious and attempting to affect the hops in the router.