Sentence examples for attempts to hook from inspiring English sources

United, for instance, was blocked from buying US Airways 14 months ago, and foreign-ownership rules stymied BA's attempts to hook up with KLM of the Netherlands.

A bit of a wild scramble in the area, and Mikel attempts to hook a ball across Romero from the left-hand post and into the top right.

"It will take away our sense of selves, of living in a solar community," said Mrs. Putney, who has staved off attempts to hook up the island for 15 years.

Past attempts to hook up with Banco BPI (which later countered BCP's hostile bid with a merger proposal of its own) made plenty of sense, and not just because of the cost savings a deal would offer.

In footage of the delivery played before the state coroner Michael Barnes yesterday, Hughes attempts to hook the ball but misses and is struck on the left side of his neck.

The story is typically insular: on a business trip to Cincinnati, a depressed motivational speaker in the throes of a regulation midlife crisis shares an unloving phone call with his wife and son, attempts to hook up with an old flame, and then seduces a young fan who has travelled many miles to see him speak.

After lunch, John Dyson (century-maker in the first innings) gloved Willis to Taylor, attempting to hook.

The keeper skittered back in an attempt to hook it off the line, but too late!

Ergo, the Freak Brothers are an attempt to hook our children on drugs.

This classic political attempt to hook the postal service flotation scandal far into the undergrowth failed, of course.

Later that night I was moved to the maternity ward, where a nurse made an unsuccessful attempt to hook me up to a fetal-heart-rate monitor.