Sentence examples for difficult attempts from inspiring English sources

During the three years Miliband served as foreign secretary, MI6 always consulted him personally before embarking on what a source described as "any particularly difficult" attempts to gain information from a detainee held by a country with a poor human rights record.

The movie, narrated by Dame Judi Dench, weaves the accounts of 16 elderly Jewish men and women, recalling the harrowing and often heartbreaking circumstances for their flight from the Nazis and their difficult attempts to adjust to, and be accepted by, the British families who took them in.

Why is the originality so readily granted us in literature so mistrustfully denied us in our difficult attempts at social change?

As a result of the incident, Amir's already difficult attempts to create change within his department, as well as among his fellow officers, become even more complicated as he finds himself the subject of civil rights activist Reverend Charles X . Maxtons (Jon Cesar) latest campaign for social justice; a campaign that has also attracted the support of a few naïve (and white) young adults.

"We don't have the kind of silicon industry in Europe that exists in the United States and Asia, so this was always a difficult attempt," Mr. Nordstrom said.

Halfpenny kicked that from in front of the posts, followed by a slightly more difficult attempt to give Wales a 9-3 leat at half-time.

Webb then missed a chance to force a playoff when a difficult attempt for par from the same distance drifted left of the hole.

Even if it is difficult, attempt to talk to others about your feelings, so that you will feel less alone with your pain.

Had two more difficult penalty attempts gone over, Sarries would have led by more than 6-3 at half-time.

This is when my "difficult" patient attempts to pin me against a wall, still demanding his medication.

But the subversive victim narrative, explored with far more bite in Paul Verhoeven's new thriller Elle, ultimately fizzles out and investment in what happens to the pair becomes increasingly difficult with attempts to de-stage the story bordering on desperate.