Sentence examples for attempts to destroy from inspiring English sources

The town was fortified and between 1696 and 1806 successfully resisted five attempts to destroy it.

She said she was furious over the governor's attempts to "destroy the teachers union".

Tells about attempts to destroy the paer & its liberalizing influence on French public opinion.

In a frenzy of remorse, she attempts to destroy her poems and outrun her past.

Subsequently, he attempts to destroy the picture, and in so doing kills himself.

1.33pm GMT Flash attempts to destroy Ming's palace by flying a rocket into it.

"Attempts to destroy [us] have been going on for 80 years and have never succeeded".

The movement continued to expand despite the death of its founder and the government's attempts to destroy it.

Violent attempts to destroy the state of Israel have brought nothing but destruction and death to Arab peoples.

They are literally iconoclastic: attempts to destroy any trace of forbidden images or inspire fear in any who might object.

But the statement said the army's attempts to destroy four militant bomb-making factories only partly succeeded because intelligence on two of the sites was wrong.