Sentence examples for attempts to dig from inspiring English sources

Grieving families' attempts to dig up the dead for proper burial were punished as treason.

All his attempts to dig himself out of his considerable hole have only deepened it.Perhaps his fate was inevitable.

All are legitimate concerns for the future.It is not really surprising that attempts to dig up The Economist's early web pages have come to naught.

Attempts to dig out the basement without proper precautions, they fear, could cause the walls to shift or rupture, leading to flooding and the destabilization of nearby buildings.

"This may be the only shovel-ready project in America," Cheney noted sardonically, making fun of Obama's attempts to dig out from under the trillions of debt left by his predecessors.

His latest film, produced with Minority Rights Group International, is about a community of small-scale gold miners in the Cauca department of Colombia and their resistance against a mining company's attempts to dig on their land.

He previously attempted to dig a tunnel.

Microsoft attempted to dig its own moat by simply shutting out its competitors, until it was stopped by the courts.

The official claimed the email showed that an unnamed special adviser had attempted to dig dirt on Mrs Warren.

In 1997, a particularly avid fan attempted to dig up Lovecraft's corpse under the headstone, but gave up after finding nothing from digging three feet.

Everything Cope has done, since fleeing the Top of the Pops spotlight, is an attempt to dig his way back to what goes before, what lies beneath.