Sentence examples for forlorn effort from inspiring English sources

He wrote: "We shall make a forlorn effort to reach the next depot but it means 22 miles and we are none of us fit to face it.

In the early 1980s (even before the infamous Iran-contra scandal), says Mr Bergman, Israel sold arms to revolutionary Iran as an operation known as "Seashell", in part to ensure that the war between Iran and Iraq would continue to weaken two enemies but also in a forlorn effort to win back some of the influence Israel had enjoyed in Tehran before the fall of the shah.

Wotherspoon hit the top of the bar with a powerful late effort, but it seemed a forlorn effort with only three minutes left of the 90.

"It really is a very forlorn effort to break what looks to me like quite a cohesive Sunni Arab insurgency," said Gareth Stansfield, director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, who visited Iraq last month.

A plaque commemorates the Queen's opening of Wigan Pier in March 1986, 50 years after Orwell's forlorn efforts to find it.

In return for such gestures as sponsoring Taiwan's forlorn efforts to re-enter the UN, Panama has received $450m in investment from Taiwanese firms in the past five years, and generous aid.

The cautious crawl towards economic and political liberalisation has again stalled as the priority of "confronting" Israel overrides all else.Lebanon, the Arab world's freest society, teeters on the brink of ruin despite forlorn efforts to bypass the regional turmoil.

Just how forlorn this effort appeared at the time was made clear at a hastily arranged press conference on Capitol Hill to announce the Sanders candidacy on 30 April 2015.

Superposition is a departure from their forlorn vocal driven pop efforts, and marks their arrival at a far distant place.

The openness of the game suited the home side, who sought to be irrepressible, but their efforts looked like being forlorn.

Try to look forlorn and depressed.