Sentence examples for first attempt to combat from inspiring English sources

The island's first attempt to combat the outbreak was an unsuccessful culling campaign in which 100,000 dogs were killed.

It isn't Pearce's first attempt to combat the misogyny of certain sections of the gaming industry head-on.

The first attempt to combat prison radicalisation in a systematic manner was undertaken two years ago by Stephane Scotto, the governor at Fresnes.

These technologies aren't the first attempt to combat drowsiness behind the wheel.

Almost $574 are spent every second attempting to combat the illegal drugs trade in the US.

The programs that attempt to combat the latter may actually be at odds with combating the former.

Though King's manifesto failed to spur a second Emancipation Proclamation from the White House, it was an important and emphatic attempt to combat the structured forgetting of emancipation latent within Civil War memory.

The repo rate increase, which was in line with market expectations, was seen as an attempt to combat the severe price pressures that plague Asia's third-largest economy, after China and Japan.

We did attempt to combat it.

This model is a new attempt to combat the problem of early kick detection via pattern recognition.

In any serious attempt to combat piracy, Puntland must play an integral role.