Sentence examples for basic attempt to from inspiring English sources

This consists of a basic attempt to find someone without actually contacting that person.

"Vatican II worked in its basic attempt to say you can't present all the Jews now as responsible for the death of Jesus".

Reviewer Andrew Parkinson also notes, "At the end, there is a basic attempt to validate Cannibal Ferox, posing that old chestnut of whether civilised man is actually more savage than the uncivilised tribespeople".

It has dozens of cases and forms and even a basic attempt to draw up the rules of Hungarian would run into many pages and leave your head spinning.

Anyway, now I was out and about exaggerating my "identity" (learning guitar, wearing red jeans and dying my hair pink) and "mingling" (at 2 PM with people from MySpace), in a basic attempt to mimic what I thought adult life was like.

This might seem like the moment to tell you what we made of the show when we saw it in previews this week, to point out its basic attempts to humanise Good Muslims.

Very basic attempts at marketing to social network users will be met with understandable cynicism and leave brands looking decidedly tarnished.

Why are debates about reproductive rights mired in Neanderthal attitudes, demonstrably fanciful notions about biology ("legitimate rape"), and pro-life activists stubbornly resistant to even basic attempts at reasonable compromise?

Let's get back to basics and attempt to understand what's going on here.

In the US, it was typically known as slacker chic, which segued into the "hipster" aesthetic, which was, in its most basic sense, an attempt to recreate authenticity.

Basic research, the attempt to understand the fundamental principles of science, is so risky, in fact, that only the federal government is willing to keep pouring money into it.