Sentence examples for attempting to combat from inspiring English sources

Almost $574 are spent every second attempting to combat the illegal drugs trade in the US.

This group is attempting to combat tungro, a viral disease that kills rice a staple crop throughout Asia.

However, in attempting to combat predicted "benefit tourism" from eastern Europe, the government has made it impossible for UK citizens returning from abroad to claim as well.

There are myriad reasons – lifestyle changes, the recession, houses standing where pitches used to be – and many projects, plus thousands of dedicated people, attempting to combat the problem.

Yet it is not an issue ignored by everyone in the film industry, and one woman who is attempting to combat Hollywood's ingrained sexism is the producer Elizabeth Karlsen.

Witt is attempting to combat the university's image as a party school, and now his football coach had been involved in a boozy episode that brought Alabama embarrassment and ridicule.

The programs that attempt to combat the latter may actually be at odds with combating the former.

The mixture of public anonymity and tech prowess has put such sites on the defensive as they attempt to combat spam and uncouth behaviour.

Both parties have declared they will attempt to combat the One Nation threat by "listening to the concerns" of the electorate.

What has the Bush administration done to attempt to combat "systemic abuses of civil liberties" that may arise in the country following the terrorist attacks?

According to the International Labour Organisation ILOO), as of 2012 almost 200m people out of the global working-age population of 5.3 billion are jobless.Cassandra, of course, attempts to combat the tenth trend identified by the WEF: the spread of misinformation online.