Sentence examples for harrowing attempt from inspiring English sources

LONDON — The British government revealed details on Thursday of a harrowing attempt by American Special Forces troops to mount a nighttime rescue of a British aid worker kidnapped by the Taliban in the highlands of eastern Afghanistan, and of the woman's death when an American soldier threw a hand grenade into a gully where she was being held.

But the police also gave details of a harrowing attempt by a police officer to resuscitate Ms. Gotbaum, saying that she vomited into the mouth of the officer as he gave her mouth-to-mouth, and that the officer then spit, but continued trying to save her.

Franklin and 23 crew members died there, while the remaining crew of 105 made a harrowing attempt to hike to safety, surviving initially by cannibalism; eventually they all died.

Five young men in paint-splattered jeans and work boots fling themselves across the stage in synchronized movements that simulate tiling floors and punctuate the main character's monologue about his four harrowing attempts to cross the border.

And harrowing rescue attempts by Coast Guard helicopters to pluck Kulluk crewmembers from a deck that pitched and rolled with each wave.

It is 1788, the monarch is behaving bizarrely, and his devoted Queen (Helen Mirren) has been plucked from his side while doctors attempt harrowing cures.

He lives in the narrow kitchen of a grim Brooklyn apartment with a contemptuous roommate, Charles Paul Grimstadd), an aspiring musician, and the movie's main drama, as comical as it is harrowing, is Keith's attempt to get Charles to pay his share of the electric bill before the lights are turned off.

Back at the lab, Cosima tries to shake off harrowing memories as she attempts a desperate move to find a cure.

This year alone, more than 2,000 people have died attempting the harrowing sea voyage from Africa to Europe, and thousands more continue to pile into rickety, overcrowded boats.

The Northern Line was suspended along my desired route, as is often the case with the Tube when you're in a rush, so I found myself travelling on a bus full of kids from the local Catholic school, St Aloysius (my mum opted to enrol me elsewhere after hearing a harrowing tale of an attempted Chelsea smile from the worried parents of a pupil).

Then, the next year, an attempt that had already been thwarted by weather and avalanches turned into a harrowing effort to rescue a team of climbers stranded high up on the East Ridge.