Sentence examples for attempts at total from inspiring English sources

Such attempts at total control, Bingham reckons, place unnecessary pressure on hard-working women while providing a poor role model to impressionable daughters.

And yet their attempts at total propriety are betrayed – by a suggestion of a giggle, or a moment of insecurity (gripping a friend's hand), or by their martial stiffness as they wait just too long for the shutter to close – so that it becomes clear they were absolutely alive to the process.

However, he agrees with the decision to move away from attempts at total eradication.

MISS WALLLL-ER!"--until, in spite of all her vain attempts at total concentration, Tisha Waller could hear them over the crowd's noise and everything else.

To further this attempt at total immersion, I had rented a small apartment close to the city centre and booked some lessons at the local Spanish language school.

The declaration yesterday can therefore be seen as a calculated move by Mr Denktash to strengthen his hand internationally rather than a serious attempt at total UDI.

The video immediately went viral; indeed, an important difference between our contemporary world and Plato's republic is that modern technology would render any attempt at total state censorship impossible.

This visceral study of desperation and desire journeys into the dark heart of greed, exploitation and brutality, as it portrays a project that is "an infringement of individual liberties, an attempt at total social control, an insult to the human spirit".

This is an attempt at total assimilation.

Enter "Seriously Cyrus," the family's new YouTube channel, which is the brood's attempt at total Internet domination with shows including "Truly Tish," "Sunday Sessions" (with Billy Ray) and "Take 2" (featuring Miley's 13-year-old sister, Noah, who will remake classic movie scenes with her friends).

After four attempts at seeding a total of 768 wells, no colonies developed.