Sentence examples for attempts of a from inspiring English sources

Himes's texts are, in the end, the bald, clumsy, and insightful attempts of a boy not to pay for his desire with shame.

48) Ofsted inspected 21 schools in Birmingham against the background of allegations of attempts of a Muslim takeover, in Operation Trojan Horse.

It was a quiet gem that beautifully and comically highlighted the attempts of a group of "square peg" teenagers to fit in at their high school: Your thoughts?

Little Boxes (1968) consisted of two one-acts, the first about aging vaudevillians and the second about the attempts of a young lesbian couple to conceal their affair.

Sometimes she films the desperate attempts of a mother to control her brood, then plays the recording back, offering tips on how to do it right.

The newcomers stood warily next to the rebel groups, several mocking the attempts of a band from a nearby town as they tried to shoot a hovering Syrian helicopter out of the sky.

What, however, is extraordinary is that the attempts of a few hundred migrants, many of whom may well be refugees fleeing war and persecution, have completely eclipsed the situation in the Mediterranean, where thousands do continue to attempt to cross.

It also learned of the increasingly desperate attempts of a depressed, timid single mother with borderline learning difficulties herself to attract the sustained attention of officialdom to her plight.

To him, no number of glorious arias and no number of supposed commercial opportunities are worth missing the valiant attempts of a soap-opera heroine named Maria to free herself from captivity.

In this aphid species the generation of only one CTKR was sufficient in order to interrupt oviposition attempts of A. colemani and consecutive CTKRs always caused a repelling effect (see example in Fig. 2C and movie S1, observed in 5 colonies).

However, oviposition attempts of A. colemani in U. hypochoeridis colonies evoked solitary defense reactions in those colony members surrounding the parasitoid (see first part of movie S3).