Sentence examples for continue the attempt from inspiring English sources

Two new lives, Peter Martin's "Samuel Johnson" (Harvard; $35) and Jeffrey Meyers's "Samuel Johnson: The Struggle" (Basic; $35), continue the attempt to make Johnson radical and romantic and all the things that Boswell is supposed to have missed.

Mr. Laib continues the attempt to overcome material history with matters of the spirit.

That same night Tottenham will be elsewhere in the north-east, continuing the attempt to protect their top-flight status against Middlesbrough.

Fair enough, especially since most recent Garden decisions have also been popular ones -- getting Gretzky, bringing in Latrell Sprewell, continuing the attempt to dump Ewing and buying back Messier.

Test preparation would focus on the content of the tests, rather than continue the fruitless attempt to teach test taking.

After the failure of the negotiations he continued the resistance, attempting unsuccessfully to push the Byzantines back.

"This lawsuit is an attempt to continue the legal barrage and public attention on Mr. Weinstein," Kupferstein told Variety.

He went on to help form OutRage!, which has attempted to continue the GLF radical tradition.

It needs some genuinely passionate, original thinking, not hamfisted attempts to continue the story.

Builders sneaked in overnight to continue the works, followed by Albanians attempting to demolish it.

But attempts to continue the changes by the coalition government were blocked by Tory traditionalists in 2012.