Sentence examples for full-scale attempt from inspiring English sources

In fact, by 1963 he felt both well enough and rich enough to make a full-scale attempt to salvage the treasure ship.

Neo and the rebels must head off a full-scale attempt by the machines to destroy the underground city, Zion, so the basic revolutionary posture remains intact.

And deep in the background, there still lurks the memory of Vietnam, America's last full-scale attempt at imperial nation-building.

At the time they essentially called a nurse and the nurse immediately called an arrest and there was a full-scale attempt at resuscitation with all of the appropriate things -- the medicines -- and were never able to resuscitate him".

In the composer's later years, after Hart and Hammerstein had died, his shows (with a variety of collaborators) were failures, with the definite exception of "No Strings," his only full-scale attempt at writing both music and lyrics.

The first full-scale attempt to document a war was carried out a few years later, during the American Civil War, by a firm of Northern photographers headed by Mathew Brady, who had made several official portraits of President Lincoln.

In the twentieth century political philosophers devoted themselves at least as much to the analysis of the problem of political obligation, and to the concepts it involves, as to full-scale attempts to devise theories of the obligation to obey the law.

The diaries of the scholarly cabinet minister Richard Crossman have been recognised as  shedding a valuable light on the way we are governed, but government made a full scale attempt to censor their publication.

3 November Full-scale attack on Budapest.

While this is perfectly reasonable, what worries me is that we are seeing this "positive" approach escalate into what feels like full-scale spin, an attempt to apply lipstick to the pig of technological unemployment.

As a result, a second pilot study of patients with sciatica of more than 4 weeks duration has been planned before a full-scale trial is attempted.