Sentence examples for began to attempt from inspiring English sources

Conrad Hal Waddington (1905 75) began to attempt the integration of embryology, genetics, and evolution early in his professional career.

In the 19th century, scholars began to attempt classification of the various Niger-Congo languages.

Or they did, until the US began to attempt the impossible: to completely cut off that cross-border movement.

Is this decision an outgrowth of the meeting you had here last year with presidents and chancellors where you began to attempt to reform college sports?

She babysat on weekends to pay for the hire of a flute, and began to attempt to learn how to produce with her own breath and fingers something of what she had heard.

Accordingly, Kou began to attempt to curb the orgiastic practices and mercenary spirit that had become associated with Daoist rites and to place greater emphasis on hygienic ritual and good works.

We are only now beginning to attempt that….

The collision trauma reduces pliability — a major cause of voice loss that doctors have only recently begun to attempt to solve.

When one begins to attempt to untangle the grand knot of American contradictions — to say nothing of our personal moral inconsistencies — one ends up very tired.

When one begins to attempt to untangle the grand knot of American contradictions to say nothing of our personal moral inconsistencies one ends up very tired.

The result can be an executive that has lost half its room for manoeuvre before it has even begun to attempt to rule.