Sentence examples for bid to kill a from inspiring English sources

In truth it is an ill-disguised bid to kill a program that gives some poor parents a choice regarding where their children go to school.

How distressing to read about the Weston hunter who made a $3,605 bid to kill a moose in Vermont ("On the Auction Block, Permits for Moose Hunting," Aug. 21).

The group also planted a explosive device by the road in a bid to kill Mandela when his car passed on the way to visit a school in Limpopo.

But Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are still missing, presumed alive; on January 13th America made its latest failed bid to kill the latter in a provocative air raid on northern Pakistan.It has previously been journalists and Democratic politicians who groused at this failure.

In a bid to kill two birds with one stone, Uber is launching a new feature called Payment Rewards.

Today, 39 Squadron operates a dozen MQ-7 Reaper drones over the same area – albeit from computer screens on an airbase in Nevada – in a bid to kill or capture Osama bin Laden.

Investigators believe they might have been returning to the scene in an attempt to remotely detonate a bomb they left behind, possibly in a bid to kill first-responders.

One mob boss who hired a Lithuanian assassin for a failed bid to kill Crocetta was less than tolerant of his sexuality than voters, describing him in a wiretapped call as "this queer communist".

One blast was allegedly a bid to kill Pakistan's high commissioner.

The climb to 45,000ft could also have been carried out by the hijackers once they had taken control – in a bid to kill the passengers on board.

The story sees Batman confront Scarecrow, who has returned to unite his enemies in a bid to kill the Dark Knight.