Sentence examples for bid to reverse a from inspiring English sources

In March, Pistorius's lawyers failed in their legal bid to reverse a supreme court of appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide – the equivalent of manslaughter – to murder.

OTTAWA — In a bid to reverse a steep drop in its stock price, Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, said on Thursday that it would spend up to $1.2 billion to buy back shares.

TOKYO — Japan said Thursday that it had intervened in the foreign exchange market, selling yen and buying dollars in a bid to reverse a punishing spike in the value of the Japanese currency.

Mr Pickles scrapped guidance telling councils to introduce fortnightly collections in a bid to reverse a trend developed under Labour.

Larry Silverstein, the World Trade Center leaseholder, lost his bid to reverse an appeals court ruling that the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers did not entitle him to a $7 billion insurance payment.

Numbers like these have made the public angry and fuelled popular protests, in a bid to reverse the logic of a system that privileges money over social matters.

Kurdish politicians have accused the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of "setting the country on fire" as a prelude to calling a snap election, in a bid to reverse his party's losses in last month's polls.

The talking points were part of an intensifying effort by the government to win support abroad, matching a similarly vigorous effort by Mr. Morsi's Islamist supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood to win backing for their bid to reverse what they call a coup.

International human rights groups plan to step up their protests against Russia's anti-gay laws during the event in a bid to reverse legislation that they say is responsible for a dramatic rise in homophobic attacks.

The company, which has shed 460 staff in the last two years in a bid to reverse losses of £35m, has also raised £3.3m through a share placing to invest in e-commerce, events and digital advertising.

In all three cases it cited the need to "engage with the public," a message that may derail Malaysia's bid to reverse investment outflows and tackle a budget deficit that has overshot its targets since 2007 to hit 7.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, the highest level in more than 20 years.