Sentence examples for hasty attempt from inspiring English sources

The Belgian's hasty attempt at clarification has done little to assuage popular anger.

On another it looks like a hasty attempt by a blindsided politician to cover up a diplomatic faux pas.

That is the extent of its resemblance to anything much else, though a hasty attempt at orientation might suggest Colin MacInnes and the prole parts of Nineteen Eighty-Four as distant reference points.

As Alex Keddie hesitated, Jordan McMillan's hasty attempt to clear struck Gary Harkins and slipped just wide of a Pars post.

Others will view it as a hasty attempt to claw back the glories of third album Hollow Crown, but it's not that either.

Brent Piaskoski, executive producer of CTV's Spun Out, starring Dave Foley, tweeted the above in what he subsequently called a "hasty attempt to be funny".

A year later over lunch in Kabul we both agreed it was good these hasty attempts had failed.

That's not a bad thing, given that hasty attempts to out-do a device that doesn't even exist yet are hardly a perfect recipe for thoughtful product design.

Nation-building, of course, has its risks, but so does a hasty withdrawal as attempted at the end of our war with Iraq.

Both were conducting hasty repairs and attempting to ready themselves for what all assumed would be another day of battle on 30 May.

The other striking feature was the number of decisions referred to the television match official; on one occasion Fiji had a try scrubbed out after it had been awarded on the field, which may yet encourage kickers to attempt more hasty drop-kick conversions in future.