Sentence examples for attempts at serving from inspiring English sources

This resulted in the government blocking Pavel's attempts at serving as the Pavlensky's lawyer during the trial.

He dispatched one group into the kitchen to help, another into TriBakery, which was making a shaky attempt at serving lunch for the first time.

For the most part, his attempts at humor serve as attention grabbers when a historical and sociological context for a joke is explored.

Take, for instance, the philandering husband in "Difficulties With Girls," whose weak attempts at reform serve only to turn him into a more artful adulterer: "On the far side of the bridge Patrick stopped the car at a pedestrian crossing.

This successful resistance against Spanish attempts at domination served to attract ever more Indians fleeing colonial rule.

The subtitle — "Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer" — serves as an organizing principle.

Any attempt at obstruction serves neither country's interest, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Still, I believe this attempt at shaming serves as a wake-up call.

Inevitably, Ed's attempts at redemption only serve to drag him down further, but the movie's tone is one of subdued melodrama rather than suspense thriller.

The suit says collectors made 41 futile attempts to serve him with a court summons at his home address.

Baltimore County police officers shot and killed Gaines on Monday after she barricaded herself inside her Randallstown apartment with her five-year-old son and pointed a shotgun at officers attempting to serve an arrest warrant on charges stemming from a 10 March traffic stop including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.