Sentence examples for disastrous attempt from inspiring English sources

Next up: a slightly disastrous attempt to anatomize the seven types of bookstore customer.

His disastrous attempt to acquire Chemical Bank in 1969 failed when Leasco's stock came under attack.

The latter society's disastrous attempt at insurrection on May 12 , 1839 was the classic prototype of the Blanquist surprise attack.

The disastrous attempt to sequence "Bigfoot's genome"—and what it tells us about the nature of science.

But he is left sounding like Stephen Hawking making a disastrous attempt to woo someone across a station concourse.

Following the disastrous attempt in 1980 to resolve the Iran hostage crisis by military action, the United States reorganized its special operations forces.

Others, like Chris Sheridan of ESPN.com, fixated on how the Celtics hacked up their chance to win this game with a disastrous attempt at a final play.

The latest European plan to prevent the collapse of the banking system in Cyprus is a big improvement over the first disastrous attempt to address the crisis.

Rumours of a similar move at M&G have been gathering strength since the disastrous attempt by its partner, Prudential, to take over Asian insurer AIA.

Before the 2009 uprising, the Salafists associated with the Ndimi mosque had already made one disastrous attempt at creating an Islamic state.

In 1956, Anthony Eden appointed Lord Hailsham first lord of the admiralty on the eve of Britain's disastrous attempt to recapture the Suez Canal from Egypt.