Sentence examples for expensive attempt from inspiring English sources

"Man of Steel" is an expensive attempt to revive a well-worn Superman franchise.

First, China agreed to a truce in a long-running and increasingly expensive attempt to deny Taiwan diplomatic allies.

Mr. Murdoch's expensive attempt to jump on the iPad bandwagon, the much-ballyhooed electronic magazine The Daily, so far looks like a dud, too.

What we have onstage in London is a simpler, smoother, more direct and less expensive attempt to get to those goals.

pay rises, cash, loans and apartments in what appeared to be the Arab world's most expensive attempt to appease the unrest that has swept two leaders from power.

The most immediate criticism, however, came from Ms. Merkel's political opponents, who denounced the largess as an expensive attempt to woo voters before next year's election, in which Ms. Merkel will run for a third term.

Problems have plagued the program from the get-go, despite expensive attempts to solve them.

In fact, between 1957 and 1994, three expensive attempts to exorcise the echo failed.

The real damage of climate change could be brought by misinformed and expensive attempts to alter its natural, and perhaps beneficial, course.

The late noughties were scattered with the bones of these failed (and expensive) attempts – and I'm sure many marketers still carry the scars.

But the expensive attempts to transport TV entertainment to the Internet "were all disasters," said Trip Chowdhry, a senior analyst for Global Equities Research.