Sentence examples for beginning to attempt from inspiring English sources

We are only now beginning to attempt that….

Mr. Morsi and his allies are now only beginning to attempt to exert some control over the body of the state that would allow him to put in effect a social, economic and political program.

According to Paula Nutall, linseed oil had been used in Northern painting as far back as the 12th century -- it wasn't discovered by the Van Eycks as the Italian writer Vasari claimed -- and oil paint had given Flemish artists a command of effects and moods that Renaissance Italian artists were only just beginning to attempt.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.