Sentence examples for effort to commit from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hu acknowledged that each of those issues needed attention, but deflected every effort to commit China to concrete action.
A school resource officer reports that a peer counselor told him that Cruz ingested gasoline in an effort to commit suicide and was cutting himself.
Occasionally, the effort to commit fully to the conceit feels strained or shows its limitations, as when a grainy camera recording from a distance undercuts the intensity of a particularly dramatic confrontation.
Post, wrote, "that this kind of talk by a 'high' official amounts to psychological warfare on the President, in an effort to commit the U.S., in the hopes of deterring the Communists, to action the president himself refused to agree to in advance".
The Model Penal Code and several American state codes, however, provide for an affirmative defense if it can be shown that the actor "abandoned his effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevented its commission, under circumstances manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of his criminal purpose".
The unions played a decisive role, first by assuring the new doctrine's acceptance within the party and then by destroying any chance of its success as economic policy.I recall how at the party conference of 1953, trade-union power crushed the effort to commit the party to further nationalisation.
Then he became chairman of the International Relations Committee, where he led successful efforts to commit the United States to invest $5 billion over five years in combating H.I.V. and AIDS around the world.
An outlandish plot to attack the 91 Freeway is just the latest in several aborted efforts to commit terrorism at transportation hubs, law enforcement authorities say.
Set within the fictional state of San Andreas (based on Southern California), the single-player story follows three criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a government agency.
A class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York by a pair of Californians alleged that Jordan's robocalls were part of efforts to "commit willful torts for his own personal gain".
