Sentence examples for attempted to retrieve a from inspiring English sources

Austrian authorities had temporarily detained him earlier this year when he attempted to retrieve a loaded gun he had hidden in a restroom at Vienna airport in January.

Later, he attempted to retrieve a backup from his Mac, but the computer simply froze after that request.

Lapierre's hit occurred early in the first period when Boyle attempted to retrieve a puck from the corner in San Jose's own end.

The most famous of these were the Grimm brothers, who were attempting to "retrieve a record of the German spirit".

The initial download automatically restarted a few times while attempting to retrieve a license.

D'Arcy's 60th try in Leinster colours was converted by Madigan, who soon blundered when attempting to retrieve a kick and the loose ball was pounced upon by Allen for a soft converted score.

Imagine you're an alien and during your first visit to Earth you encounter a group of humans playing the game bobbing for apples, in which participants attempt to retrieve a floating apple from a large tub filled with water using only their mouths.

In this way Gadamer can be seen as attempting to retrieve a positive conception of prejudice (German Vorurteil) that goes back to the meaning of the term as literally a pre-judgment (from the Latin prae-judicium) that was lost during the Renaissance.

Capture the flag involves two teams of players attempting to retrieve a flag within the other team's base and returning it to their own to score.

Chaplin then shot a sequence that was eventually cut from the film involving the Little Tramp attempting to retrieve a stick that was stuck in a wall.

Meanwhile, Subcommander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) leads an away team to a nearby sphere to attempt to retrieve a data core in order to get more information on the Sphere-Builders.