Sentence examples for attempts to tempt from inspiring English sources

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But attempts to tempt in this new demographic are long overdue, you declare.

"'For sale' sign goes up over UK infrastructure projects" was the headline, and the opening paragraph ran thus: "George Osborne will next week hang a 'for sale' sign over British infrastructure projects worth tens of billions of pounds, as he attempts to tempt UK pension funds, oil-rich Gulf states and other sovereign wealth funds to pay for new roads, railways, housing and other projects".

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Fallon attempted to tempt Obama into considering a Michelle-Hillary ticket for the presidency in 2016.

He had backed down in February although the company starting buying back shares in April and also split its shares, reducing the price in an attempt to tempt more investors to buy them.

Khelaifi, who is also the general manager of al-Jazeera Sport, the Qatar-owned TV station that employs Wenger as a pundit, first attempted to tempt the Frenchman to PSG in the summer of 2011.

A previous attempt to tempt Bolt out of his comfort zone, when London 2012's record-shattering 800m gold-medallist David Rudisha challenged the Jamaican to a race over 400m, "for charity or as an act of healthy competition", was dismissed earlier this year.

The knot tying, which I learn is an essential skill since much of fly-fishing seems to consist of securing various plastic lines to each other as well as to different flies in an attempt to tempt the fickle fish, goes moderately well.

It will also do them no harm in their attempt to tempt Fernando Alonso to join them from Ferrari.

Thus the term 'Silicon Beach' was coined more than a decade ago as local quango Wired Sussex attempted to tempt companies down to the South Coast of England to create a cluster of companies that would reinvigorate what was then a town.

It wouldn't be a shock to hear that Microsoft is attempting to tempt Team Vine into building a WP app, especially considering just how quickly Vine shares on Twitter surpassed Instagram shares.

"The forces of darkness remain around us at all time, attempting to tempt us, trick us, trap us into arms of Satan.

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