Sentence examples for attempts to declare from inspiring English sources

The wall text makes some halfhearted attempts to declare something about Adams.

FIFA, the sport's worldwide governing body, announced yesterday that it would move this week to head off European regulators' attempts to declare its transfer rules illegal.

In exchange, according to an agreement Netanyahu and Secretary Hillary Clinton reached on Thursday, the U.S. will send Israel twenty advanced fighter jets and would veto any U.N. Security Council attempts to declare statehood for Palestine without Israeli approval.

China, meanwhile, treats Taiwan as a rebel province, and has threatened military action if it attempts to declare independence, but foreign trade between the two countries totals nearly sixty-five billion dollars.

"We are officially addressing President Viktor Yanukovich: attempts to declare a state of emergency are nothing but a state coup," opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk told reporters at a briefing Sunday.

Believing she could wrest control of her company from the Wertheimers, Chanel attempted to declare the company abandoned.

Now DC campaigners are attempting to circumvent Congress with a controversial attempt to declare unilateral independence through a district-wide referendum on Tuesday.

Quirkiness, when attributed to a chick flick's spirited protagonist, is frequently a shortcut an attempt to declare her specialness without endowing her with any distinguishing qualities.

The United Nations (UN) attempted to declare the city a corpus separatum (Latin: "separate entity")—and, thus, avert further conflict but the first Arab-Israeli war, in 1948, left Jerusalem divided into Israeli (west Jerusalem) and Jordanian (east Jerusalem) sectors.

Nullification crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832 33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Updated at 4.57pm BST 9.13am BST AP has more on today's Iraqi parliament session to consider Maliki's attempt to declare a state of emergency.