Sentence examples for attempting to bring a from inspiring English sources
He stopped in at 680 Fifth Avenue, where Branch Rickey, the former president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was attempting to bring a new team to the city.
Bravely, he had just launched a new restaurant which was attempting to bring a style of modernist, avant-garde food usually found only in big-ticket Michelin-starred places, at gastropub prices - literally.
She is director of the Urban Design and Plan Review Division, attempting to bring a high level of design excellence to the federal presence in Washington, D.C. Prior to her work at NCPC, Saum served for 10 years as director of the Mayors Institutee on City Design, a project of the National Endowment of the Arts.
Adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane, and boasting the same big-budget B-movie visual sensibility as Cape Fear, Shutter Island is a guilty pleasure in which everything is turned up to 11 – not least the harrumphing classical jukebox accompaniment, which flits from Ligeti to Mahler and sounds on occasion like Bernard Herrmann attempting to bring a large ocean liner in to dock.
Attempting to bring a brick-and-mortar industry online is no easy feat.
A year ago, we covered a fledgling startup called numberFire that is attempting to bring a deep, scientific approach to your fantasy football picks.
Earlier today, I wrote about a new startup called Perka that's attempting to bring an end to loyalty cards with a kick ass merchant-facing service.
At this point, Genet attempted to bring a suit for libel against Jay, a design that fizzled out ignominiously (see John Jay and Rufus King to AlexanderHamilton and Henry Knox, 11/26/1793, Jay ID #5646).
He and his wife, Yuan Wei-jing, toured rural areas to record abuses by the local family-planning authorities, against whom they attempted to bring a class-action lawsuit.
They also lowered the lights, projected images behind them, and generally attempted to bring a little atmosphere to whichever hall they had booked for the night.
There was trouble in 1974 at the Bradford Alhambra when he attempted to bring a local woman, not a member of Equity, into the show.
