Sentence examples for attempted to discuss from inspiring English sources

Amnesty said it had attempted to discuss the issue with the Syrian authorities and was awaiting a response.

But they don't think of us as intellectual equals, highlighted by accusations of being hysterical and over sensitive when we attempted to discuss serious issues facing women.

Even more surprising, at my local branch meeting recently when I attempted to discuss the treatment of Jeremy and his followers in the press, I was curtly informed that actually both Marx and Trotsky are dead.

"As he returned each of these books at the end of the loan period, he attempted to discuss them with her, but each time, Edie, eyeing the Austen, the Eliot, the Woolf, would say, 'I haven't read it.

Last week also saw a furore over a response to Rice's ban by the ESPN sports analyst Stephen A Smith. Smith, who apologised for comments in which he attempted to discuss whether the alleged assault had been provoked, was subsequently suspended for a week.

Although Ramus challenged the values and educational principles of scholasticism, he never attempted to discuss theological issues.

The literature on the subject is so abundant that I shall not attempt to discuss it, but proceed at once with the discussion of data concerning the patients who have been under our care.

Just being in the city makes me think of things related to her work, which I then attempt to discuss with her in my rusty Korean.

We spent two memorable days watching the muster, enjoying the famous Patagonian hospitality and attempting to discuss the finer points of sheep shearing in Spanish.

The three young, male flat-sharers' – Matt, Dave and Xanthi – attempts to discuss a recent lads' holiday over "welcome home" beef fajitas was wonderfully vague.

The one sequence in which we hear Mr. Kiefer attempt to discuss his work is a conversation with a German interviewer in the library at Barjac.