Sentence examples for attempts often from inspiring English sources

Well-intentioned rescue attempts often prevent such "orphans" from surviving.

Whether they succeed or fail, coup attempts often disrupt established relationships among political elites.

Ranging over four generations, she identifies and isolates the points at which relationships start to fracture, and shows the tentative attempts, often years later, at repair.

Experience has shown that the analysis of counterexamples or failed proof attempts often holds the key to the completion of proofs and for the correction of a faulty model.

Other attempts, often referred to as "dramedies" -- like "Frank's Place" and "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" -- didn't catch on, and network and studio executives resisted the format, mainly because it was expensive.

Any Western oil official who comes to Iraq would require heavy security, exposing the companies to all the same logistical nightmares that have hampered previous attempts, often undertaken at huge cost, to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure.

By the ninth century, Islamic tower jumpers were attempting, often disastrously, to fly.

And in the past year 5% of Salvadoreans suffered an extortion attempt, often orchestrated by mobile phone from prisons.

This brilliant, original playwright attempted, often futilely, to overcome Spanish theatre's bourgeois complacency and artistic mediocrity.

High-school graduates who do not pass the examinations on their first attempt often study intensively for a year and retake the tests.

Schools that do not appoint on their first or second attempt often feel their only option is to bring in a recruitment firm.