Sentence examples for attempting to make sure from inspiring English sources

Albanese said Labor was attempting to make sure "that first home buyers who are currently out of the market – I mean, they've stopped even looking – will enter the market and not be competing in an unfair way".

I'm talking about the priest, the stock figure of pre-modern western life, who would accompany you, from earliest infancy to your dying breath, attempting to make sure that your soul was in a good state to meet its maker.

This move seems to be simply AT&T looking at scrutiny from the FCC (brought about by the Google Voice thing), and also seeing moves like Verizon teaming up with Android to do phones that will offer Google Voice, and attempting to make sure that it is not again portrayed to be the bad guy here.

"On this level, 'transfiguration' becomes an action; artists attempt to make sure their art is no longer blocked out, no longer suspended".

The therapists' groups said that when insurers have conducted audits, they have merely attempted to make sure the sessions actually occurred and that the treatment was not inappropriate.

WALL STREET JOURNAL Federal Reserve Orders R.B.S. to Fall In Line | Royal Bank of Scotland has become the latest foreign bank to receive a warning from American regulators as they attempt to make sure international firms fall in line with the law.

"While I recognize that the department has attempted to make sure that its activities in Philadelphia will not be interpreted as associating the department with any partisan political causes, issues or activities, this will be, frankly, a difficult distinction for many people to make," Mr. Skelton wrote.

Above all, Wurtsmith attempted to make sure that he had enough P-40s in commission to outnumber the Japanese.

However, Schafer noted that they attempted to make sure that non-metal fans would be able to get the jokes as well.

Stunt coordinator Lauro Chartrand attempts to make sure the actors are used as much as possible when performing fight scenes, unless the scenes are particularly dangerous.

Firstly, a husbandman tilling the fields with his new oxen makes a rash oath aloud to give them to the wolf; when the wolf overhears this, he attempts to make sure that the man fulfills his promise.