Sentence examples for imperfect attempt from inspiring English sources

"New Multitudes" is an earnest, imperfect attempt to extend Guthrie's legacy.

Judge Gilmore, for instance, said Mr. Guerinot "made an imperfect attempt to avoid conviction and death".

In Yemen, optimists laud the dialogue process as a successful — if messy and imperfect — attempt to forge a more representative political system.

The Kyoto pact was seen in many countries as a courageous if imperfect attempt to come to grips with an impossibly complex and uncertain threat.

Government security agencies are now the front-line insurance policies in which politicians have lavishly invested in an imperfect attempt to save citizens from attack.

But perhaps even the most banal TV output will be viewed in a kindlier light from billions of miles away, reduced to what it is in essence: an imperfect attempt to make a connection across empty space.

On Facebook and her blog on the Jewish parenting Web site Kveller, Ms. Bialik has been unusually open about her life, her choices and her imperfect attempts to reconcile the conflicts that crop up around them.

But the piece is weakly episodic, and many of its representations of disaster and the aftermath — the clattering collapse of wooden boards, the purposely imperfect attempts by the performers to balance the boards or stuff them in their clothing — are uncomfortably similar to Sasha Waltz's 2005 work "Gezeiten".

This new bill, however imperfect, attempts to bring in more of that international brain power.

Brzezinski's book is a candid, often heart-felt and sometimes raw account of her own admittedly imperfect attempts to balance the career and family, both of which she loves.

We can't let this one, imperfect effort be our only attempt.