Sentence examples for attempted to exercise from inspiring English sources

Plaintiff CompuServe has attempted to exercise this privilege to protect its computer systems.

She said for a couple of years during the winter months she had attempted to exercise her creativity by running an informal restaurant in their home.

In its 1988 decision, the appeals court said that the O.M.B. had attempted to exercise "substantive lawmaking authority" that Congress had not given it.

Henry's son Otto I (king from 936) attempted to exercise more authority over his dukes, and in 938 Eberhard rebelled; he was defeated and fined.

In court papers, he said that "relations within the family are strained to the breaking point" because his nephew, Howard Milstein, "had attempted to exercise unilateral control over the family's holdings".

Faced with these challenges, Innocent moved quickly and effectively to recover the Papal States and also attempted to exercise his rights as feudal overlord of the kingdom of Sicily.

Attempt to exercise your responsibilities and your career suffers.

But, in fact, many companies all but frustrate their customers' attempts to exercise that control.

Similarly, employees will not be retaliated against for exercising or attempting to exercise rights under this Section 4.3.22.

Childeric was the last Merovingian to attempt to exercise authority, but he lacked political ability.

We are not inclined to complicate its task further by attempting to exercise close and necessarily inexpert supervision of its judgments.