Sentence examples for attempts to found from inspiring English sources
Hull City Association Football Club was founded in June 1904; previous attempts to found a football club had proved difficult because of the dominance in the city of rugby league teams such as Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers.
Moreover, just as Raleigh's attempts to found "Virginia" in the 1580s failed, so London's plans in 1710 to invade French Canada proved a total disaster.
Instead, Douglass asked for funds to start his own African-American newspaper in the US – a move discouraged by his white American allies, who warned that previous attempts to found a black-owned paper had failed.
It has been suggested that the plot of the film, which could feature cameos from franchise stalwarts Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, could centre on Luke Skywalker's attempts to found a Jedi academy on the planet Yavin 4. Episode VII is being scripted by Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning writer of Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3.
In this context, rhetoric becomes an important tool, helping the virtuous leader in his attempts to found a virtuous city by ably engaging average people's imaginations (and affecting them in a way that philosophical argument could never affect them), and in this way guiding them along towards right action and the happiness that comes from human flourishing.
There were also unsuccessful attempts to found Malay-language literary publications, such as Malaya (announced in 1921).
