Sentence examples for attempted to resolve a from inspiring English sources

The Lindelof-scripted Prometheus resembles the first season of the island-set series in that it crammed spaceship-loads of intriguing nuggets into its two-hour running time but really only attempted to resolve a small proportion of them, leaving the audience with more questions than they had in the first place.

Federal, state, and territory leaders have attempted to resolve a raucous national debate over the use of human embryonic stem (ES) cells by agreeing to allow some research to continue under strict regulation.

The extension was built without an act of Parliament and there was a long delay while Tennant attempted to resolve a dispute with a landowner over the routing of the canal.

A year ago, in my book The Age of Acquiescence, I attempted to resolve a mystery hinted at in its subtitle: "The rise and fall of American resistance to organized wealth and power".

Don't Ask, Don't Tell began as an inadequate and deeply flawed compromise that attempted to resolve a debate that raged at all levels of our society -- in families, communities, and among military and political leaders.

We attempted to resolve a species tree from the seven gene trees with a method more powerful than concatenation of the matrices.

He began by attempting to resolve a decades-old rift between his father, Buzz, and Buzz's brother, Sheldon.

He was attempting to resolve a legal muddle that began almost immediately after Detroit filed for bankruptcy last Thursday.

He is attempting to resolve a painful dispute around a shared residence order that was breached when his ex-wife took their six-year-old son to live in another part of the country.

He gave an excellent argument for the Dean candidacy ("He has a proven record on health care and balancing budgets") while attempting to resolve a dispute between two toddlers over a Baggie full of trail mix.

In 1961, the U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash, on the border between Northern Rhodesia (now called Zambia) and the Congo, where he was attempting to resolve a bid for secession in the copper-rich Katanga Province.