Sentence examples for children attempt from inspiring English sources

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Children attempt to commit suicide.

Duster agreed, referencing a key scene where the priest's adoptive children attempt to escape his attack, watched by a host of woodland animals.

But a fragile box that blindfolded children attempt to break with sticks to access the goodies inside is a perfect metaphor for our politicians – and their treatment of the NHS, the police, education and the powerless.

The book explores the tortured and often misguided process by which children attempt to define themselves in relation to their parents (one iteration of the "getting even" of the title), a process from which Danny and Marghie, as Gabriel slowly discovers, are not exempt.

"The myth of South Africa as a place of opportunity is a powerful one which cannot be broken," says Perez. "Even after such traumatic experiences, many children attempt to cross the border again because the situation at home has not changed.

Interestingly, the foraging patterns of the youngest children were slightly more adult-like than of the oldest ones, which may suggest that older children attempt to use strategies that they have not yet fully mastered.

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In Celeste Fichter's video "Pledged," a soundtrack of young children attempting to recite the Pledge of Allegiance is accompanied by rapid-fire imagery illustrating their humorously garbled syllables.

Instead, the action reflected, the official said, a longstanding reaction to the increase in Central American families and unaccompanied children attempting to cross the US-Mexico border.

One AfD MEP, Beatrix von Storch, recently wrote on Facebook that women and children attempting to enter Germany illegally should be stopped on the border with guns.

The only sign of life was in Al Doha, where several children attempted to build a barricade from stones and a burning tire.

Instead, the official said, the action reflected a longstanding reaction to the increase in Central American families and unaccompanied children attempting to cross the US-Mexico border.

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