Sentence examples for given up attempting from inspiring English sources

Coming in a close second, statistical proof that gun control has reduced gun deaths in countries around the world is something that a significant number of those polled have given up attempting to break down for morons.

I've given up attempting to act like everything's okay, because that only ever made me worse.

There and then I decided to give up attempting to be an actor, a singer, a comedian, any kind of performer.

Compared with the great British figurative painters who were his contemporaries and friends, it appears as if he simply gave up attempting to paint at a high level.

They will never give up attempting to improve the lives of the students in our schools even in the most trying circumstances.

We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.

The Commonwealth leaders surmised that the MNLA could not possibly resist such a campaign forever, and would, in time, simply give up attempting to regroup.

To think that they will just stop coming to Calais, give up attempting to cross the English Channel it's ignoring human nature.

He has now given up attempts to enter Russian politics, scrapping plans to form a moderate opposition party with Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet president.

The Philae space probe, which electrified the scientific world when it landed on a comet after a 10-year journey, has gone into "eternal hibernation" as ground controllers have given up attempts to re-establish contact with the craft.

Relating the findings of a U.S. medical school survey, she reported that 65% of respondents (77 medical schools) had either given up attempts to create their own authorship policies or had never broached the subject, and a further six schools "reported that they did not know whether there were authorship policies, or whether there had ever been discussions of such policies".