Sentence examples for attempting to shake from inspiring English sources

Imagine a cadaver attempting to shake off rigor mortis.

St . LouisManager Tony La Russa, attempting to shake up an anemic offense, decided that Adam Kennedy would bat ninth and his pitcher eighth.

BBC Monitoring, the government/BBC-funded body that listens to and summarises foreign broadcasts, is attempting to shake off a reputation for spookery and consolidate a post-cold war role.

The two prisons – both built in the mid-19th century – have won plaudits for attempting to shake off their Victorian pasts, but overcrowding and tightened budgets have led to concerns about their ability to improve further.

Hovercraft Symphony in Gammon # Major is at the Hi-Fi until 19 April (no show Mondays) Avenue Q is another show attempting to shake up a few conventions, although the approach is rather different from Foot's.

It is in this peculiar setting that Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, finds himself attempting to "shake up" the Catholic Church, as he likes to say.

Subsequently, whenever he again attempted to shake the patient's hand, she promptly withdrew it.

The last king of Vien Chan, Chao Anou (also called Anouvong; ruled 1805 28), attempted to shake off this yoke.

Instead, Sather attempted to shake up the Rangers by dealing for Pavel Bure, Tom Poti, Rem Murray, Martin Rucinsky and Roman Lyashenko.

The Chancellor's tax and benefit strategy is doing no favours to the Tories' attempts to shake off unpopularity among female voters.

Just as alternative comedy aimed to modernise and liberalise the content of British jokes, a number of current shows attempt to shake up the shape of seasonal entertainment.