Sentence examples for attempting to rectify from inspiring English sources

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It means taking a long look at our shortcomings as a society, and attempting to rectify them.

Not only are England terrible at 50-over cricket: they are now terrible at attempting to rectify their own terribleness.

Micheal Gove is attempting to rectify this, and anyone in the happy situation Mr Le Vay describes today probably has him to thank.

Zellner is now attempting to rectify an investigative lapse by Zuley and others: using state-of-the art forensic and DNA testing to determine if Harris, Griggs and Johnson are guilty and innocent.

They would include the fact that he does not seem to have developed any actual organization and that instead of attempting to rectify this problem, he's spending most of his time on book-promotion tours of states that are not planning on having primaries any time in the near future.

That old aphorism about Porsche designing a car with an engine in the wrong place and spending the next half-century attempting to rectify the problem, holds as true today as ever.

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But that history is missing key contributions, and attempts to rectify this are relatively recent.

Bodganor and his Oxford University colleagues attempted to rectify this when they worked with students to codify the rules, regulations and conventions which currently apply, produced as the UK constitution.

On Sunday, he attempted to rectify disparaging comments Trump made about the family of an American soldier who was killed in combat.

Liverpool had actually sent him the wrong pass in error and quickly attempted to rectify the error, on a day in which they celebrated Bill Shankly.

And AB de Villiers' attempts to rectify the situation were thwarted by Martin Guptill's throw from long-on, which beat his dash to the non-striker's end and left South Africa 85 for five in the 15th over.

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