Sentence examples for attempted to attach from inspiring English sources

In print and on screen, journalists and racing officials attempted to attach human characteristics to this fantastic, albeit equine, athlete in the weeks leading up to the Belmont Stakes.

"Our climbers attempted to attach themselves to the side of the platform to raise attention to the threat of Arctic oil drilling in this fragile environment and the urgent need to deal with climate change".

Some soccer fans attempted to attach symbolism to the fact that Bafana Bafana played its second World Cup match during the celebration, losing by 3-0 to Uruguay on Wednesday.

Several Senators - Democrats Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon along with Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul - each attempted to attach amendments to the law simply to provide some modest amounts of transparency and oversight to ensure that the government's warrantless eavesdropping powers were constrained and checked from abuse.

Environmentalists are critical of the bill, to which Democrats had attempted to attach a renewable portfolio standard that would require utilities to allot a percentage of their power output to energy sources such as wind or solar power.

After his re-election, Reid attempted to attach language to a must-pass tax bill to open the door to online gambling in the United States.

This spring, they embarrassed themselves again by attempting to attach some extraneous provisions to a flood-relief bill for the Dakotas and Minnesota.

The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the random drift of human affairs to some sort of unknowable but glimpsable divine motion, attempting to attach a certain grandeur to it, the delusion of meaning.

Members of Congress are attempting to attach a bill to a trans-Atlantic trade deal to block European governments from requiring the special labelling of goods produced in illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Much of that is now disappearing as universities switch conferences in the middle of the night and a college in Idaho, for example, attempts to attach itself to a conference that plays its annual basketball tournament in New York City.

Mickenberg, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and Nel, a professor of English at Kansas State University, have nonetheless found 44 texts that attempt to attach children to social justice permanently.