Sentence examples for attempted to found a from inspiring English sources

The English attempted to found a colony near Manokwari (now in West Papua) in 1793.

The English attempted to found a colony near Manokwari in 1793.

He attempted to found a Catholic hostel at Oxford but was thwarted by the opposition of Manning.

In the 1970s and '80s the government attempted to found a university in every state, but, with the ever-increasing number of states, this practice was abandoned.

Toward the end of 1808, inspired by a threatened rising against Napoleon, Kleist wrote some savage war poems and a political and patriotic tragedy, Die Hermannsschlacht (1821; "Hermann's Battle"), and in 1809 attempted to found a political periodical that would call all Germany to arms.

One month before the riots, Priestley attempted to found a reform society, the Warwickshire Constitutional Society, which would have supported universal suffrage and short Parliaments.

Mr. Czupkowski said he attempted to find a permanent home for them.

Blair and Aznar attempted to find a solution, but it proved elusive.

Alone in the world, both James and Nora Webster attempted to find a way out of failure or grief or loss.

Following Moritz's death in 1793 Maimon attempted to find a new patron.

We attempted to find a method of reducing time and effort for recording videos of cardiac surgical procedures.