Sentence examples for given up attempts from inspiring English sources
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".
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.
The Bank of Korea gave up attempts to stabilise the won, and the currency plunged to record lows.
For these patients, the traditional hospice rules applied — in order to qualify for home hospice, they had to give up attempts at curative treatment.
It soon gave up attempts at a purge, returned the large industrial firms to their previous owners, and replaced the partisan administrators in the north with ordinary state officials.
Congress should immediately give up attempts to block this progress; each delay in closing Guantanamo threatens our national security.
But he gave up attempts to overturn his sentence years ago — a move that made him, in death row parlance, a "volunteer".
Greater disengagement (avoiding problems, giving up attempts to cope) was associated with poorer relationship with physician, poorer functional and physical well being, and greater mood distress.
