Sentence examples for attempted to split from inspiring English sources

The case was significant in that Luzhkov attempted to split the tandem by appealing, unsuccessfully, to Putin over Medvedev's head.

The play began when Johansson attempted to split the Calgary defense but wound up falling as he drew three opposing players toward him.

The new constitution of 1983 attempted to split the opposition to apartheid by meeting Indian and Coloured grievances while at the same time giving blacks no political rights except in the homelands.

One moderate insurgent official, Agha Jan Motasim, spent weeks in Kabul as a low-profile guest of the government while U.S. and other officials reportedly attempted to split his faction off from the hard-line leadership of Taliban leader Mohammad Omar and persuade Motasim to open a new peace office, in Turkey or Saudi Arabia.

In addition to the segmentation of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab com-munities, the government attempted to split the Palestinian Arab community into a number of smaller groups.

This is the third time Draper has attempted to split up the state.

When attempting to split the bill, discover that you've already forgotten all math.

As a practical matter, Iyer will attempt to split his time between Cambridge and New York, "and we'll see how that works".

Or he could attempt to split the Muslim League still further by openly backing a "king's party" headed by any one among the rebels.

Frydenberg told reporters the income tax bill would be presented as "one package to the Australian people", warning Labor off attempts to split the measures.

But in the weeks since protests erupted in Tibet over Chinese rule, the government has angrily attacked what it sees as anti-Chinese bias in foreign media and warned that outsiders were attempting to split the country.