Sentence examples for attempted to grind from inspiring English sources

"It makes me furious that these men, these boys, are attempting to grind you down, in the same way that similar men have tirelessly attempted to grind down the emergence of our gender as a viable political threat for generations now".

England may have scored slowly on Friday as they attempted to grind towards the follow-on target - a mere 65 runs in a moribund morning session, a sedentary afternoon when the run-rate barely edged above two, just 66 in 34 overs in the evening - but the excuses are not hard to find.

In the spring of 1864, the 37th was engaged in the Overland Campaign a rapid series of severe battles during which Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant attempted to grind down the Confederate army and capture the Confederate capital of Richmond.

The stand-in skipper came close to notching an impressive hat-trick before his hands failed him when he attempted to ground Julian Savea's grubber.

Wales should have had a third try before the interval but this time Davies rightly ruled out Mark Taylor's effort as the centre clearly lost control of the ball as he attempted to ground it.

The video official adjudged that the winger had knocked on as he attempted to ground the ball, but Irish's reprieve was only temporary.

In addition to some of the features noted in section 4.3 (e.g., having interests, having a good, etc)., some philosophers have attempted to ground the moral status of an entity on features that do not connect with interests in any way.

During his time in Norway Reich attempted to ground his orgasm theory in biology, exploring whether Freud's metaphor of the libido in fact represented electricity or a chemical substance, an argument Freud had proposed in the 1890s but had abandoned.

As the political theorist Sheldon Wolin argued in his great essay, "The State of the Union," in the New York Review of Books, reflecting on President Carter's address in 1978, the Declaration of Independence "set out a conception of collectivity that... attempted to ground public authority in the specific capacity of the people to constitute their own political identity".

Karlsen and Solbakk [ 12] observed that with the publication of the 6th edition, the authors not only attempted to ground their theory in the common morality, but that there was also an increased tendency to align the former with the latter.

From the moment Brendan Rodgers named his starting XI, it was obvious Liverpool were attempting to grind out a victory.