Sentence examples for earliest attempt to from inspiring English sources

He introduced the earliest attempt to regulate working hours by means of clocks.

The earliest attempt to bring Roman Christianity to the Prussians dates from 997.

Dipping it instead into milky white, he thus marked his earliest "attempt to bring something into focus".

The Canterbury Tales, the greatest work of Middle English literature, was copied down by Chaucer's scribe Adam Pinkhurst; though the parchment is grievously damaged, it marks the earliest attempt to circulate Chaucer's tales in 14th-century London.

Just as the Brady Act of 1994 was born of John Hinckley's attempt on Ronald Reagan's life, and as the Gun Control Act of 1968 came in the wake of the murders of J.F.K., R.F.K., and M.L.K., even the earliest attempt to tighten federal firearms regulations would not have reached the floor of Congress if a public figure had not come under direct attack.

In his doctoral dissertation, Chisholm made his earliest attempt to formulate a set of such principles.

The British Film Institute has collected in one 88-minute video seven of the earliest attempts to recreate Shakespeare on film.

My earliest attempts to write clues have been mercifully destroyed and all memories of them systematically repressed.

Earliest attempts to model solute transport in the unsaturated zone were made by soil scientists.

One of the earliest attempts to formalize nonmonotonic reasoning, Sandewall 1972, addresses the frame problem.

The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI [10]) is one of the earliest attempts to eliminate cloud resource heterogeneity.