Sentence examples for halt attempts from inspiring English sources

Passage of the Daschle-Harkin bill would halt attempts to reform America's distorted agricultural policy.

On Thursday, Ukraine's parliament voted for a motion to halt attempts to clear Independence Square, which required ruling party MPs to break ranks with the president.

His halting attempts to talk about hitting 50 convey a real anxiety.

But many, especially critics of the government, said Russia's bureaucracy has routinely halted attempts to establish effective oversight mechanisms.

This gulf between taxes and spending has closed, somewhat, in the three years since, thanks to the limping recovery and some halting attempts at deficit reduction in Washington.

His halting attempts to explain himself in Arabic are foiled by an interpreter who molds his harmless message to her own stereotypical notions.

The conspiracy to take down Mr. Spitzer may be a major preoccupation of "Client 9," but Mr. Spitzer's halting attempts to explain himself may prove more riveting.

Dementieva did produce some winners with her best shot, the forehand, and also made some halting attempts to push forward to the net.

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Sean Durkin, 2011, USA, 101min Sean Durkin's haunting first feature, about a young woman's halting attempts to undo the psychic terror of the cult she's just escaped, heralds the arrival of a remarkable new talent.

Straw will also confirm on Monday that he has halted attempts to buy a new 450-place prison ship on the basis that building the extra prison places on land will be 25% cheaper.

But beyond the short-term political tussle lies the question of long-term damage to the country's halting attempts to integrate its newcomers, many of whom were born here but are still viewed as outside society's mainstream.