Sentence examples for foolish attempt from inspiring English sources

Sonja Van Tichelen, the EU regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said: "The EU proposal is a misguided and foolish attempt to save face.

Mr Justice Fulford told Bowes: "You have made available to the press confidential information concerning children".Your explanation is that it was a foolish attempt by you to be in some part associated with notorious or high-profile cases".

A Foreign Office spokesman said the memo had been a foolish attempt to joke about the church's troubles, and had not been seen by any high-ranking Foreign Office officials before it went out to other departments.

In "The Decay of Lying", he had mocked the writer Charles Reade for "a foolish attempt to be modern, to draw public opinion to the state of our convict prisons".

"It's basically a foolish attempt to make the year as peaceful and uneventful as possible," said Jiang Tianyong, a lawyer who was among those blocked from renewing their licenses.

"Effective immediately," he wrote in The Daily Beast, "in light of your latest foolish attempt at seeming important, we will ignore you and your hot air for the foreseeable future — or, at the very least, until after the Nov. 6 election".

These foolish attempts to publicly shame comedians are self-defeating at best.

Duncan Smith said: "Craig Oliver's is one of a growing number of foolish attempts by ex-government remainers who lost to shift responsibility for their failure.

Rugby league is a great game, but it cannot demonstrate the variety that union offers – and the problems that exist in union are often the result of the lawmakers' foolish attempts to bring the doctrines of the 13-man game into the more widespread form of rugby or to tidy up the game by eliminating the contest for the ball that makes it so special.

But seeing as how anyone now can invent any endeavour, however foolish, and attempt to set a world record in it, here is my effort – the most times the word "daft" has been printed consecutively in a national newspaper: daft daft daft daft daft daft daft daft daft daft (can we break out the champagne yet?).

Then chancellor Philip Hammond said the exact opposite, suggesting the EU would be foolish to attempt such a manoeuvre because it would only hand business to New York.