Sentence examples for idea of attempting from inspiring English sources

But she praised the idea of attempting to bring together guests from across the political spectrum.

These rules share the common idea of attempting to capture, in an inexpensive way, some second-order information.

So the idea of attempting to "clean up" the ocean with technological solutions is one with much appeal.

Accordingly, he had the idea of attempting to perform his operas as originally intended, a project that was to bear such significant fruit in later years.

The idea of attempting to transform the aging McCall's, which was 125 years old, by linking it to the star of Ms. O'Donnell made strategic sense.

The winner of the £1,000 prize – who did read his poem at the award ceremony, at the Southbank Centre in London – was Nick MacKinnon, for The Metric System, about the idea of attempting to weigh something weightless.

The idea of "attempted" crimes has evolved in America over the last century.

Indeed, for most of the ten years I worked on this project, I fought against the idea even of attempting one.

The history of all popular governments show how absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties".

The idea of William Forsythe and Robert Wilson attempting to preserve their current provocateur status while acting as Rolex mentors is hilarious.

"The idea of therapists attempting to change a patient's sexual orientation has been proven ineffective and dangerous, and has been soundly and conclusively rejected by the entire medical establishment," GLAAD President Herndon Graddick said in a statement.