Sentence examples for declaration as an attempt from inspiring English sources

Many saw its truce declaration as an attempt to negotiate a dignified exit from violence after more than two years in which, despite its efforts, it failed to kill anyone at all.

Mr Morsi portrayed his declaration as an attempt to fulfil popular demands for justice and protect the transition to a constitutional democracy.

The Government of Croatia viewed this declaration as an attempt to secede.

England's 1689 Declaration of Rights made a provision that "subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their condition and as allowed by law"; the Declaration was an attempt to resolve a struggle between Parliament and the Crown, in which Parliament wrested control of the militia from the Crown.

It was not intended as a cocky declaration, but more an attempt to try and acknowledge what consumes him, how he thinks, an effort to describe how his mind is somehow wired to notes and chords differently than the rest of us.

The new Muslim groups stepped into the breach, just as evangelical and pentecostal churches did in the mainly Christian south.The declaration of sharia law was presented as an attempt to restore morality and integrity in a corrupt land.

His committee produced a landmark speech for Ojukwu, the "Ahiara declaration," "an attempt to capture the meaning of the struggle for Biafran sovereignty".

Le Pen has accused Farage of slander against her and "extremely disagreeable declarations" in an attempt to boost his popularity.

As part of this debate, David Cameron's declaration that he wasn't going to be "lurching to the right" was seen as an attempt to burnish his modernising credentials.

Indeed, the film begins with a declaration that it is "an experimentation in the cinematic communication of visual phenomena", and it can therefore be seen as much as an attempt to redefine the language of cinema as to present a portrait of a city – and it is perhaps the form as much as the content that has led to its enduring popularity.

The move – seen as an attempt to circumvent the Spanish constitutional court's ban on a similar session scheduled for Monday – could potentially provide an opportunity for the region's promised unilateral declaration of independence.