Sentence examples for attempts to get it from inspiring English sources
The government had largely ignored the FATF's attempts to get it to clean up its financial sector.
Now, the New York Times reports, the plant's owner, Southern Company, has ditched its attempts to get it working as designed, following pressure from the Mississippi Public Service Commission to switch to natural gas and stop hemorrhaging money.
The Interview took a reported $15m £9.8mm) in online sales in its first week, after alleged North Korean attempts to get it pulled from cinemas transformed it from a witless farce into an expression of free speech.
Attempts to get it out only drove it deeper.
Despite attempts to get it safely back out to sea, the animal died.
Until now, though, the limits of technology have thwarted his attempts to get it to sing in perfect harmony.
As of 2006, this project – which O'Neill had hoped to produce with Lifetime television – has not been realized, and it is unknown whether O'Neill is still attempting to get it produced, or if Raucher consented to its production.
Its screenwriter, Phyllis Nagy, has spent 14 years attempting to get it made; that she finally had, she said, amounted to "a huge political statement".
