Sentence examples for graduates attempt from inspiring English sources

With only a summer's worth of training, doe-eyed college graduates attempt to close the achievement gap in some of America's most under-resourced, under-staffed, and overlooked schools.

Passport to Pimlico, meanwhile, can be shown in inner city comprehensives to illustrate a time when the lower orders talked proper and knew their place, when children sounded like Rada graduates attempting stage cockney and wouldn't try to mug the teacher and nick the projector.

Gottschalk, a professor of religion at Wesleyan University, and Greenberg, a recent Wesleyan graduate, attempt to place the cartoons in a historical perspective dating to the Islamic conquests and the crusades.

Dunham's second feature, Tiny Furniture (2010), documents with acerbic precision the familial and social difficulties of a privileged college graduate attempting to integrate into society at large.

The Brit school graduate attempts to transform the chart success of her dubstep-influenced single Katy On a Mission into something more lasting: this tour will presumably premiere tracks from her forthcoming, as yet untitled, debut album.

Instead of waiting until he graduated to attempt the unforgiving 26.2-mile distance, Salazar took a break during his senior year to call his shot at the New York City Marathon in 1980, promising to run a sub-2 10, sub-2 10dard for a world-class performance.

Even the University of Pennsylvania, which is opposing before the NLRB its graduate assistants' attempt to unionize, recognizes postdocs as "research support staff" and requires that they receive health insurance (payments for which are not deducted from their pay) as well as sick, vacation, and new-child leave.

She is a college graduate who attempted a desk job upon graduation, but it didn't take.

The enigmas and convolutions of "Marienbad" yielded, and continue to yield, a great many graduate-student attempts to pin down the philosophical profundities of Mr. Resnais's vision.

Shannon told the Observer: "The university's director of graduate admissions attempted to justify the financial selection policy by claiming, falsely, that two other universities were operating an equivalent policy.

Alaa Al Aswany's second novel, "Chicago" (translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab Harper Perenniall; $14.99), set amid Egyptian émigrés in that city, where the author went to graduate school, attempts to deal with both worlds, and comes down as hard on America for sustaining Egyptian tyranny as on Egyptian tyranny itself.