Sentence examples for attempting to narrow from inspiring English sources

Harlequins were attempting to narrow a 10-point half-time deficit at that stage.

Russia is likely to side with China in attempting to narrow the scope of the resolution.

He is attempting to narrow down the crucial time period, and so in a way he does.

Under Lynton Crosby, the Tories' election strategist, the party has been attempting to narrow its focus to core issues such as the economy, immigration and welfare cuts, a strategy that may have had a part to play in the delay.

There are enough alternatives for blind and partially sighted people to work with; but I still think there's more work to be done, particularly when it comes to attempting to narrow the gaps between standard print copies of books being published and large print and Braille formats becoming available (that is, if they are even available at all).

We are currently attempting to narrow the region involved in the association with the adaptors by creating more finely-designed chimera proteins.

Addressing the Brighton conference, the president of the ECHR welcomed the fact that UK attempts to narrow the criteria for admissibilty of cases had been substantially deferred.

If not, it attempts to narrow down exactly where the putative leak is and alerts a human operator to go and have a look.And it seems to work.

The overthrow in 1954 of Mr. Arbenz, a former army colonel whose policies attempted to narrow the chasm betwen the country's tiny elite and its impoverished peasants, squashed a 10-year effort to build a democratic state.

Addressing a conference in Brighton of ministers from the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, Sir Nicholas Bratza welcomed the fact that UK attempts to narrow the criteria for admissibility of cases had been deferred.

Such centrism, Mr Kusnet contends, covers Mr Kerry's fire as he attempts to narrow the tax debate with Republicans down to the least publicly defensible of Mr Bush's tax cuts: those on inheritance, dividends and capital gains that benefit the filthy rich.The politics of the proposals certainly seem canny.