Sentence examples for attempting to rip from inspiring English sources

She is attempting to rip up decades of constitutional convention and hold civil servants directly to account to Parliament and ultimately to us.

If Lloyds attempts to strike it out on the basis of the 2011 settlement and fails it could open the door to hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals and companies attempting to rip up their agreements".

So many of the stories are about player power — with Neymar making his move from Brazil to Barcelona and Radamel Falcao choosing Monaco and with Gareth Bale, Wayne Rooney and Luis Suárez all attempting to rip up their contracts and change clubs before this month is done.

Right now, for instance, Harper-Collins is making a fool of itself by attempting to rip off libraries.

When you think of mortgage fraud, you might imagine predatory lenders attempting to rip off unsuspecting homebuyers.

When old Jock saw the woman in full stride, he hopped off a press bus and accosted her, attempting to rip off her race bib No. 261.

Prosecutors said the woman told them to leave the country and attempted to rip off their hijabs.

Quinn, in turn, attempts to rip the shirt from his back and sees yellow for his troubles.

And no teenagers from Durham or anywhere else have attempted to rip off their own scrotums while on the drug.

"I explained that I was curious to hear different views," Deen writes; his neighbor, screaming, attempted to rip the book from his hands.

But if your workers haven't yet attempted to rip their foreman to pieces Germinal-style, then for heaven's sake, maybe don't remind them that they could.