Sentence examples for attempts at establishing from inspiring English sources

In the higher echelons of New York and Los Angeles society, merely asking a question about someone else is taken as evidence of savantlike people skills, but Huffington's attempts at establishing intimacy can seem almost poignantly forced.

The Libyan leader was eventually killed in in October 2011 but subsequent attempts at establishing a democratic government have failed to bring stability.

After Athalaric's death, Eutharic's widow moved to Constantinople where further attempts at establishing a dynasty failed.

Attempts at establishing cooperatively owned radio networks had been made since the 1920s.

In Central America, attempts at establishing juntas were also put down, but resulted in significantly less violence.

Serious attempts at establishing a quality bloodline began in the early 1870s when General Richard Rowett from Illinois imported some dogs from England and began breeding.

Similar tit-for-tat attacks wrecked all previous attempts at establish a cease-fire, and any such effort would be extremely fragile.

In 1996 a new attempt at establishing a professional outdoor league was made.

In typical EA fashion this ambitious project is not the publisher's first attempt at establishing a persistent online racer.

But there was no real attempt at establishing ideological distance — no true bid to save what might be called the soul of the Republican Party.

And given how the NRL's last attempt at establishing a draft failed so spectacularly – it was dumped after a high court challenge and a ruling that it was a restraint of trade – what gives this one a chance of succeeding?