Sentence examples for engaged in attempts from inspiring English sources

To my amazement, they and the Japanese workers were soon engaged in attempts at banter and pantomime.

To one degree or another, however, most lobbying laws require registration and reporting by individuals engaged in attempts to influence governmental action.

It is intended to inform politicians engaged in attempts to deliver a new global treaty on climate by the end of 2015.

And had he been president in 2001, I'm confident he would have gone after Al Qaeda and not engaged in attempts at nation building that anyone with common sense and historical knowledge would have known would not succeed.

Women appear to be more likely than men to be engaged in attempts to lose weight.

The centrist dad is defensive, though he tries to hide this by being outwardly engaged in attempting to reclaim the term.

"That, in turn, brings me back to my primary obsessions as an artist: the age-old themes of mortality and aloneness that the subjects are consciously or unconsciously engaged in attempting to overcome and how, in this particular context, that fundamental need can be manipulated, commodified and exploited".

From roughly the mid-Fourteenth through the late Sixteenth centuries, many of the leading scholars of Europe were engaged in attempting to recover the high levels of skills and learning that characterized late classical antiquity.

Pym replied that with the boats engaged in attempting to tow Sirius and Magicienne off the reef it was not possible to deploy them under fire to tow Nereide.

Today, despite recent charges from Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Liz Bowman that they are "engaging in attempts to politicize an ongoing tragedy," many researchers are more willing to simply say that Harvey's record rains were worse because of our hotter, wetter climate.

If different kinds of conditions are expressed by the word "if", the objectors argue, then it would be wise to uncover these before engaging in attempts to formalize and systematize the concepts of necessary and sufficient.