Sentence examples for constant attempts from inspiring English sources

"There are constant attempts to smuggle illegal immigrants, alcohol, tobacco, and light arms into Estonia.

But, she said, she ignored his constant attempts to help her.

Recently I have been fighting a valiant rearguard action against my smartphone's constant attempts to distract me.

It appeared that the lifeguards saw themselves as heroically foiling my constant attempts to murder my children in their leisure facility.

Guardiola has grown weary and irritated at what he sees as the constant attempts to chip away at Barcelona's credibility and diminish their achievements.

Sometimes Massachusetts seems like an albatross around Romney's neck, given his constant attempts to explain the policies he enacted in the Bay State.

Threaded through the letters is a constant attempt to care emotionally for his family at home, with reassurances and anecdotes.

In such an environment, interrupting the constant attempt at optimization, even slightly, is an act of resistance.

That pent-up energy has subsequently spilled over into charity marathon running and a constant attempt to keep his Saracens players on their toes.

"Her last 50 years were one constant attempt to take the pen from the hand of history and write her own obituary.

Barbara Lazaroff, who with her husband, Wolfgang Puck, operates Spago and Chinois on Main in Los Angeles, describes the same notion as a constant attempt to "compartmentalize" life.