Sentence examples for attempted to borrow from inspiring English sources

I believe I am only able to understand this statement having reported on war and attempted, to borrow from Ryle, to "adhere to fact".

Examples: Obama's "You didn't build that," in which the president attempted to borrow a well-known argument from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).

With his entire team either in the hospital or confined to bed, Kennedy attempted to borrow players from the PCHA's Victoria Aristocrats, only to be turned down by PCHA president Frank Patrick.

Often, autocracies attempt to borrow legitimacy by adopting the language of the constitutions of nonautocratic regimes or by establishing similar institutions.

They have been looking at research in the field and discovered a lot of trials that attempt to borrow the methodology of medicine by using control groups.

In Philadelphia, Mr. Bush will attempt to borrow the positive imagery long associated with such Democratic issues as education and the saving of Social Security and Medicare.

With a five-year agreement, the U.S.T.A. now has the medium- term stability and clarity that should help as it attempts to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to finance further development of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

The slogan TNT uses for its original films, "The best movie studio on television," also attempts to borrow some luster from the movies, even though the increasingly homogenized film world no longer has much glory to share.

"The thing that's really hanging over all this is that when companies fund research, the companies attempt to borrow the prestige of the university," said Thomas O. McGarity, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a board member at the Center for Progressive Reform.

On that note, the UK startup is attempting to borrow from the open source model of charging for additional services around the core (and free) product, in this case handling the App Store submission process and additional partnerships/support.

MobiCart's attempting to borrow from the open source model of charging for additional services around the core (and free) product, in this case handling the App Store submission process and additional partnerships/support.