Sentence examples for attempts to bear from inspiring English sources

And children of all ages will appreciate the cats' attempts to bear some hail and hail a whale.

As our special report this week shows, the government's attempts to bear down on immigrants and visitors are harming the economy.

There would be other attempts to bear fruit from Spike's rich soil.

Dissatisfied with Hollywood's long-winded and fruitless attempts to bear a live-action version of Katsuhiro Otomo's internationally-beloved manga series and animated feature, Nguyen and Chau decided to take matters into their own hands.

It's no wonder American unions are active in China — from attempts to "bore within" the official government union to advising dissident Chinese organizers.

Steinberg's book may succeed as a blow-by-blow account of competitors' various training regimens and as a point-to-point description of the way a triathlon is organized and progresses, but his stated ambitions were much larger: "In the end, this is a book that attempts to bore" — wait for it — "deep into the lives, minds and souls of these athletes".

It's the difference between an attempt to convert and an attempt to bear witness.

The attempt to bear witness is the attempt to state honestly what you have discovered in faith in Jesus Christ.

Meanwhile, the co-founders of Occupy Central with Love and Peace turned themselves over to authorities, in an attempt to "bear the legal consequences" of the months-long unauthorized assembly.

Over and again, as in his lectures, Heaney vigorously affirms the role of the poet, while remaining vague as to what that role is: not to cure or heal but as "some dutiful contemplative, pivoting his understanding in an attempt to bear his portion of the weight of the world, knowing himself incapable of heroic virtue or redemptive effect".

When addressing fire, performance has been traditionally determined by imposing standardized requirements that necessarily attempt to bear a strong relationship with the reality of potential events – the fire performance of a protective structure is thus defined as a fire resistance period.