Sentence examples for attempts to cross from inspiring English sources

It was the protesters' attempts to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge that changed Johnson's timetable.

In 2000 the Border Patrol foiled 1.6m attempts to cross the frontier.

It announced on Wednesday that more than 37,000 attempts to cross the Channel Tunnel had been blocked since January.

"We cannot stand by and watch as more children are driven to the same desperate attempts to cross the Channel".

Aid organisations said dozens of migrants, warned of the impending police operation, had made last-ditch attempts to cross the Channel.

Getachew Merah, a rail-thin 30-year-old aspiring migrant from Ethiopia, has made three unsuccessful attempts to cross into Sudan, and is now trying again.

When the train finally attempts to cross the bridge, there is an accident, and the carriages crash into the river below.

And nothing like as reckless as Antti Laitinen's attempts to cross the Baltic from his native Finland in a homemade bark boat.

Lescott attempts to cross from the left but manages instead to lob the ball over Turnbull and onto the inside of the far post.

On the other side of the fence, near the well-tended greens of a Spanish golf course, cameras capture the attempts to cross the border.

Some 39,000 attempts to cross the Channel illegally were thwarted in 2014-15 - more than double the number from the previous year.