Sentence examples for attempting to fish from inspiring English sources

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There are some people who try to fool the system, but attempting to fish out the estimated 0.4% of cases involving overpayment attributable to fraud – an incredibly low percentage, even lower than the Department for Work and Pensions office error rate – is tarring the deserving people who need the financial support.

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He attempted to fish it out with a pair of tongs, punched a hole through the womb, and killed the mother.

Pamela Anderson does work for PETA, which, as it happens, is engaged in its own ocean-awareness campaign, attempting to rebrand fish as cuddly "sea kittens".

Austerlitz W G Sebald 415pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 In W G Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, which helped him acquire a large British reputation, one of the more memorable scenes - intentionally or otherwise - involved a fogeyish narrator, staying at an empty seaside hotel in Suffolk, attempting to eat fish and chips.

We continue to avoid this area of the market, even though traders might be attempting to bottom fish following the huge sell-off in these areas we saw at the start of the New Year.

In a way, more money was lost by investors attempting to bottom fish all the way down than by investors who were caught holding the bag at the top".

The row started after Spain accused Gibraltar of deliberately attempting to disrupt Spanish fishing boats by installing an artificial reef off its  coast, which can ruin fishing nets.

It had been 6 years 362 days since my last successful attempt to fish bass during the herring run.

Police attempts to fish him out meant a party months in the preparation was promptly shut down.

Trying to maintain a positive attitude, we attempt to fish in water hyacinth-covered Lake Ravelobe, but it is to no avail.

Carol Loeb Shloss's strenuous, emotional attempt to fish Lucia up from the depths of incarceration and obliteration has to do battle with very weighty pressures, giving her book a strained, excitable, defiant air.

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