Sentence examples for courageous attempts from inspiring English sources

"After repeated courageous attempts at rehabilitation and with the full support of the New York Rangers, the N.H.L.P.A., and the N.H.L., Derek had been showing tremendous improvement but was ultimately unable to beat this opponent".

Both are thoughtful and courageous attempts to explain why recent calls to "make poverty history" by quadrupling aid will disrupt more than assist citizens in the fragile, neocolonial political economies of Africa.

Without the NFL license, versions of 2K and Blitz each made courageous attempts to compete using only the NFL Players Association branding with made-up teams and leagues.

The tragedy -- and this is where the brilliance of Gandolfini and Chase come in -- is that he's always on the losing end of courageous attempts at self-compassion and acceptance.

Incredibly, last night -- around the same time as police were planning how to apprehend Mohammed Merah in Toulouse -- my wife and I were watching a gripping movie on French TV depicting the courageous attempts of a young Algerian girl brutally tortured by French troops in Algeria as her country fought a bloody struggle for independence.

Courageous attempts to fight back to regain control worsened their situation with increased assaults, leading in turn to even more feelings of entrapment in a difficult situation.

This version comes with greater vocal outpouring of the Congressman's courage; his courageous attempt to curtail government excesses -- his agonized cry for austerity.

"Wilson's Ghost" is a courageous attempt to tackle the most crucial issues of our time.

The children are forbidden to enter it but one girl, braver than the rest, makes a courageous attempt to escape.

Dr. Gregory Chaitin, a mathematician at the I.B.M. Watson Research Laboratory in New York, called it "a remarkable book," a courageous attempt to create a new way of viewing the world.

It's a courageous attempt, but at a time when horror movies have achieved new levels in blatancy, it may prove too slight for the genre audience.