He does know what he is doing, though, taking risks where appropriate, attempting in particular to unsettle Rashid, and held the innings together until he edged Anderson tamely to second slip.
Attempting (in vain, it turned out) to stave off decertification, Mr Samper cracked down hard.
Is this the movie attempting, in its simperingly inclusive way, to acknowledge the band's gay fanbase?
The UN, though, has been attempting in vain to produce a definition of terrorism.
What rival organisations can only dream of attempting in a distant future, Raqqa's rulers may be able to pursue now.
Here, in effect, the author is also offering a definition of what he is attempting in this work.
That's what Abigail Taylor-Sansom and Dan Wilson are attempting in Off Broadway Family Theater's first production, le Clanché du Rand's adaptation of C.S. Lewis's classic novel.
That's what Catherine Fowles and Jara Jones are attempting in Off Broadway Family Theater's first production, le Clanché du Rand's adaptation of C.S. Lewis's classic novel.
The law was repealed after World War II, but statutes attempting in milder ways to counteract the partitioning of farmsteads have been enacted.
It was as if we were two rival inventors, each attempting, in her own half-baked way, to erase the authorities.
The Catholic Church has been attempting, in fits and starts, to confront its own complicity in terrible crimes, and Francis has continued this tradition.
