Sentence examples for felt attempts from inspiring English sources

She said she now felt attempts to deal with domestic violence in the 1970s had had the unintended consequence of enabling a gradual erosion of citizens' rights and freedoms.

His attempts to schedule my time felt like attempts to control it.

His most famous pieces from the 1980s and 90s – slow, rapt, deceptively simple – have felt like attempts to glimpse eternity.

Some grew angry at what they felt were attempts by city officials to thwart their First Amendment rights.

They also felt that attempts to extend the implementation of evidence to health policy would be futile because there are no precedents for this type of policy intervention in the Saudi Arabian medical community.

He felt to attempt to speak in what would have been an extremely rudimentary Spanish would have potentially undermined his authority even more.

This contradiction is experienced through a very direct and felt interaction, attempting to hold or control one's breath.

Seward in the end would not pardon Colt, as he felt the attempted cover-up of the crime and Colt's demeanor throughout the trial were not the actions of a "penitent man".

We felt that attempting to blend a number of different tools or frameworks would produce an unwieldy instrument that contained too great a degree of detail.

However, a minority felt that attempting to increase their walking may have been detrimental: "And unfortunately… being part of the trial and trying to increase the level of activity was probably the worst thing I could have done.

Despite the anticipated difficulties of identifying patients for a study, we felt that attempting to understand the occurrence of the condition is important to better help patients who are faced with this socially challenging condition.