Sentence examples for attempting to retrieve a from inspiring English sources

The most famous of these were the Grimm brothers, who were attempting to "retrieve a record of the German spirit".

The initial download automatically restarted a few times while attempting to retrieve a license.

D'Arcy's 60th try in Leinster colours was converted by Madigan, who soon blundered when attempting to retrieve a kick and the loose ball was pounced upon by Allen for a soft converted score.

In this way Gadamer can be seen as attempting to retrieve a positive conception of prejudice (German Vorurteil) that goes back to the meaning of the term as literally a pre-judgment (from the Latin prae-judicium) that was lost during the Renaissance.

Capture the flag involves two teams of players attempting to retrieve a flag within the other team's base and returning it to their own to score.

Chaplin then shot a sequence that was eventually cut from the film involving the Little Tramp attempting to retrieve a stick that was stuck in a wall.

On August 25, 1939, while vacationing with his family and swimming with his daughters at Lake Huron, he drowned attempting to retrieve an inflatable tire they were playing with.

Austrian authorities had temporarily detained him earlier this year when he attempted to retrieve a loaded gun he had hidden in a restroom at Vienna airport in January.

Later, he attempted to retrieve a backup from his Mac, but the computer simply froze after that request.

Imagine you're an alien and during your first visit to Earth you encounter a group of humans playing the game bobbing for apples, in which participants attempt to retrieve a floating apple from a large tub filled with water using only their mouths.

Lapierre's hit occurred early in the first period when Boyle attempted to retrieve a puck from the corner in San Jose's own end.