Sentence examples for been a fumbling attempt from inspiring English sources
At the same time, in perhaps a harbinger of how the transitional authorities will deal with the past, there has been a fumbling attempt at a new kind of governmental openness.
Several thousand ballots of African Americans were thrown out on technicalities in 2000, and a fumbling attempt has been made recently to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons.
I didn't yet grasp that Zoe was as anxious at these events as I was‚ and I made a fumbling attempt to express my agitation.
In his commentary, Mr Carter called the distribution of the list a "fumbling attempt" to disenfranchise black people.
I'm looking at MySpace and I'm a fumbling old colonel struggling to comprehend his nephew's digital watch.
The commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant, had been deemed a "fumbling butcher". Nearly everyone around Ashley was impatient, cranky, and miserable.
The disturbing thing about this book is that it seems less an honest, fumbling attempt to explore fresh creative territory than an act of rebranding by a novelist who wants to prove that he's more than a conscientious plodder working with the sturdy but worn tools of 19th-century fiction — that he can do dazzlingly ironic, Nabokovian modernism too.
"Emission" is about Richard's fumbling attempts to clear his name on the Internet, but it's more about inadequacy and dejection.
During the 16 years Lomas worked at Gordonstoun he had a reputation for inappropriate sexual activity: he was known for his fumbling attempts to kiss the girl pupils – "with tongue".
The hastily called meeting was an attempt by the White House to address the growing frustration of the nation's insurers over the administration's fumbling of the health care law.
