Sentence examples for attempted to define from inspiring English sources

Sprint has attempted to define itself without the use of a trendy phone.

In the 1930s, obstetrician-gynecologists attempted to define themselves as surgeons specializing in women's reproductive organs.

Petitioner himself has not attempted to define the term "interest" as used in § 1963(a)(1).

Several studies have attempted to define the dimensions of an aesthetically pleasing eyebrow.

Previous reports have attempted to define a universal value that was independent of a material's plastic response.

She was raised in a white household and her white birth mother attempted to define her as "culturally white, and cosmetically black".

She suggests that the true target was less a flesh-and-blood people than a set of ideas against which Christians attempted to define themselves.

This is how Obama has attempted to define his Presidency — as an exemplar of common sense set against the extremism of the contemporary Republican Party.

The editor and author Damon Knight once attempted to define science fiction by saying that it was whatever he said it was".

It disturbed him greatly that the society's founders attempted to define who was Pennsylvania Dutch and who was not based on the purity of their blood.

In our presentation we attempted to define, explain, and demonstrate the importance of these provisions to the way cable evolved and was distributed in different areas.