Sentence examples for continuing the attempt from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
A subsequent round of telephone calls to the lower bidders did not generate any interest in continuing the process to attempt to increase the bids.
Test preparation would focus on the content of the tests, rather than continue the fruitless attempt to teach test taking.
Stephen Gostkowski missed his extra-point attempt, continuing the trend of a bad day for both teams' kickers.
After the failure of the negotiations he continued the resistance, attempting unsuccessfully to push the Byzantines back.
The choice reflects the continuing attempt by the company to maintain its relevance in a market that experiences change almost with each high school graduating class.
I am no apologist for either regime, but I do not see how the current approach in Syria, or the continuing attempt to change the behavior of the Iranian government with respect to its nuclear program, are likely to succeed.
At home, the economic recovery is only fragile, while social cohesion is threatened by the unequal impact of the financial crisis and the continuing attempt to shrink the postwar state.
