Sentence examples for attempting with from inspiring English sources

'The art that was created during the political upheaval transformed the spirit of what I was attempting with my record.

The American media are cheating voters by attempting with their coverage to narrow our choices rather than to inform us fully on the stands held by every candidate.

What Veldman is attempting, with the aid of Nakano's designs and the silvery wash of Ben Ormerod's lighting, is a danced representation of cubism.

The deeply pessimistic Germany Year Zero centres on an 11-year-old German boy attempting – with tragic consequences – to understand the shattered world of postwar Berlin.

And yet Bridges remained beguiled by the possibilities of sprung rhythm, attempting (with indifferent results, as Hopkins saw it) to use it in his own work.

The balancing act that the government is attempting with its new energy policy made little impression on the antinuclear protesters who now gather every Friday night in Tokyo.

Craft attempted with passion — that was his critical touchstone.

He attempts, with the composure and authority of his class, to send them off.

Yet intensification was what Gert Ledig attempted with his novel Payback, which first appeared in 1956.

Bryant leads the league in field goals attempted, with 26.2 a game.

This has been attempted with animals.