Sentence examples for attempts to embark from inspiring English sources

The overhaul of the Co-op is taking place amid attempts to embark on sweeping changes to the way the business is run.

Fuelled by jealousy of her sister's West End success, she attempts to embark on a celebrity career.

However, attempts to embark his 3,000 men ended in chaos; with only 1,200 men managing to board because of a shortage of boats and the artillery taking up an unexpected amount of space on board.

But as Michael attempts to embark upon his newly realized domestic bliss, he finds himself confronted with remnants of his dark past and is forced to venture back into Paris's drug-fueled underground art scene, accompanied by his ex-girlfriend Anaïs (played by Marie-France Alvarez), to settle an unpaid debt.

Following an improbable surprise wedding aboard a submarine, Christian Alice and Muslim Teddy attempt to embark on a life of bliss.

Capra Sr lived on for another 30 years without ever going behind a camera again, while Frank Jr built up his show-business credentials, though he initially attempted to embark on a completely different career.

Yet they stood fast with the Confederacy: writing home in 1862, Friedenwald warned his family that a Union victory would "palsy the fervent immigrant from attempting to embark to a land of dissension, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations will be a land without law and Liberty".

A8 A senior United Nations official says that Secretary General Kofi Annan, spurred by allegations of fraud and mismanagement in the handling of the oil-for-food aid program in Iraq, is attempting to embark on a series of changes in how the organization is organized and does business.

Following Ost ([ 26]:543), by inter-disciplinarity we mean the attempt to embark upon a 'dialogue' among disciplines leading to the (partial) reorganisation of theoretical frames and operational hypotheses.

"To embark upon the attempt to understand Hitler, understand all the processes that transformed this innocent babe into a mass murderer," Mr. Rosenbaum writes, "is to risk making his crimes 'understandable' and thus, Lanzmann implies, to acknowledge the forbidden possibility of having to forgive Hitler".

Having attempted one literary adaptation, Nair is about to embark on another: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.