Sentence examples for courts attempted from inspiring English sources

Brown met with a campaign of resistance from white Southerners, and for decades the federal courts attempted to enforce Browns mandate against repeated attempts at circumvention.

The courts attempted to mitigate this test in Re Baden's Deed Trusts (no 2); however, all three judges of the Court of Appeal gave separate new tests and reasons.

Also troubling is the way that the higher courts attempt to undo a jury's verdict.

Last week, he accused courts attempting to bring about equal rights for gay people of "attacking Christian views and ethics".

To the Editor: Much of the conflict in divorces results from courts' attempting to micromanage postdivorce families in ways that would clearly be unconstitutional if attempted with other families.

On Aug. 20, more than a year after his arrest, Mr. Centeri was sentenced to four months in jail and five years' probation for, in the language of the courts, attempting to disseminate indecent material and endanger a minor.

That is, drug courts attempt to treat drug use as a health issue, but they cannot because they are required to enforce laws criminalizing drug use -- and therefore punishment trumps treatment every time.

Sheppard said that during the trial the court attempted to account for the money.

But Chinese reinforcements were quickly defeated by the French (1883), and the wavering court attempted to seek a new settlement.

For the next two decades, the tenants and their advocates, in and out of housing court, attempted to resolve the standoff.

When a divorce court attempted to establish his net worth, Mr Romney was called upon to testify as to the value of the retail company.