Sentence examples for draft attempt from inspiring English sources

Humphrey's nomination as the Democratic candidate for president was no surprise, though the news media had made much of a last-minute draft attempt for Sen. Ted Kennedy; after a couple of days, the Massachusetts senator asked that his name not be placed in nomination.

(PDF) This seventy-two page document, which your stimulus blogger will leave you to read for yourselves, was created by executive order by President Bush in 2008 and it is a first draft attempt to figure out, among other things, how to use Web-based technologies to allow doctors to access patient histories and records, without putting patient privacy at risk.

His draft attempts a brief summary of the common history and values that form the basis of the "great venture which makes of it [Europe] a special area of human hope".

I cannot stand quietly by while a man who dodged the draft attempts to take options away from people who want to serve their country and improve their lives.

I spent weeks prior to the draft interacting with teams at the top of the draft attempting to discern which franchise was most likely to take a player.

My draft attempted to draw attention to the refugee crisis taking place in Europe by criticizing the U.S. mainstream media for insufficient coverage.

The Quebec Nordiques, who had been criticized by local fans and media for failing to select Gélinas at the 1988 draft, attempted to acquire him in exchange for Bryan Fogarty.

That afternoon, he called Notaro and convinced her that her first-draft attempt at cancer comedy, a private "workout set" she never thought even her friends would hear, should be released as an album.

Campanella is seriously teasing us: Espósito may be dissatisfied with his prose, but what he depicts in these first-draft attempts actually happened (we see the scenes again later, in their proper place in the story).

Lasser provided ideas to his authors and commented on their drafts, attempting to improve both the level of scientific literacy and the quality of the writing.

One of the four development alternatives in the 392-page draft would attempt to protect the caribou's summer habitat by putting aside 708,600 acres while still allowing oil and gas leases on more than 1 million acres, the draft EIS said.