Sentence examples for he attempted with from inspiring English sources

He attempted, with the support of CIA agent Bob Baer, to get the US to support an INC-instigated rebellion against the regime, with US troops stepping in to finish off the job.

Although he attempted, with the help of his friend H. H. Rogers, a Standard Oil executive, to wiggle out of much of what he owed, his wife, Livy, insisted that he pay back his creditors.

He was involved in a huge number of projects and campaigns throughout his life, worked with the National Youth Bureau on drug rehabilitation, was a member of the Arts Council and headed the Commission on the Organisation of the School Year (2000-03), through which he attempted, with limited success, to change the annual school programme into six-term years.

Another customs man lost his life near Sohar when he attempted, with seven colleagues, to capture a gang of 30 smugglers.

He attempts, with the composure and authority of his class, to send them off.

In this first outing for the eponymous Cat, he attempts – with varying success – to have fun while the children's mother is out.

Still, a better command of the relevant political history would have served this author well at the end of his book, when he attempts with mixed results to round off his story in 1913.

He attempts, with assistance from Soval, to send a rescue shuttlepod to "The Forge", but they are intercepted by Vulcan patrol vessels.

He made friends with his nation in a manner that he never attempted with any individual.

What would they think of the conversation he had attempted with Rumi after reading it?

This seems to be what he has attempted with "1Q84": a grand, third-person, all-encompassing meganovel.