Sentence examples for attempts to borrow from inspiring English sources

They argued, as the African-Americans had, that biased federal loan officers had systematically thwarted their attempts to borrow money to farm.

Many worry that if their application for a mortgage is rejected by one bank, this would stay on their credit record and hinder further attempts to borrow.

With a five-year agreement, the U.S.T.A. now has the medium- term stability and clarity that should help as it attempts to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to finance further development of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

The group also included Mr. Mazzoni's cousin Tommy Ventre, who became a pharmacist on Bath Avenue and had acquired his nickname, Hamburger, from his habitual attempts to borrow money to pay for his burgers at Frankie Ponce's, the local diner.

There was, however, criticism that this was exactly what the productions were – well-meaning but naive attempts to borrow ideas from the east and attach them to western forms.

The slogan TNT uses for its original films, "The best movie studio on television," also attempts to borrow some luster from the movies, even though the increasingly homogenized film world no longer has much glory to share.

In the naked version, there is no attempt to borrow or locate the stock.

He would borrow her identity, though she never made an attempt to borrow his.

I believe I am only able to understand this statement having reported on war and attempted, to borrow from Ryle, to "adhere to fact".

Often, autocracies attempt to borrow legitimacy by adopting the language of the constitutions of nonautocratic regimes or by establishing similar institutions.

They have been looking at research in the field and discovered a lot of trials that attempt to borrow the methodology of medicine by using control groups.