Sentence examples for attempting to master from inspiring English sources

This means that attempting to master something like paragliding can be interrupted by weeks of summer downpours and grey clouds.

She is now attempting to master the methods and the psychology that will persuade people to embrace her designs.

In this case, Iran has been attempting to master this centrifuge technology for years; from what is known, they have struggled.

The historical record, however suggests that the Soviet and the American experiences in attempting to master atomic energy have been far more alike than not.

But the organisation is attempting to master two conflicting roles: as a national arts organisation with its roots in the community and as a globalised free-market player.

But he was honing his skills at a time when many of the best young British musicians - among them Ronnie Scott, John Dankworth and George Shearing - were attempting to master the harmonic language of bebop.

JCM attempts to master the art of walking in the split maxi dress and struggles to keep that right leg from going astray.

At the modern quayside, our skipper, Bane, watched hopefully as I attempted to master the simple knot he had demonstrated at least eight times the previous day.

The following morning, breakfast was delivered to our compartment, where we attempted to master the art of not dropping coffee and crumbs on each other from gently swaying bunks (I failed).

If it's true, as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross argued in On Death and Dying, that "if denial is no longer possible, we can attempt to master death by challenging it", then Doughty is indeed a passionate challenger.

Suntanned and relaxed after a vacation so long that it would have shamed a French playboy, Bush reacted with fogged delinquency, as if he had been so lulled by his summer sojourn that he was not quite ready to acknowledge reality, let alone attempt to master it.