Sentence examples for in an attempt to please from inspiring English sources

He zigzagged on immigration in an attempt to please everyone and predictably pleased no-one.

Frida would devote herself to Strindberg's career in an attempt to please both father and lover.

After cramming his schedule in an attempt to please everyone -- including the Davis Cup team -- he found out that his mother and sister had cancer.

A Wisconsin state appeals court ruled on Wednesday that two girls accused of trying to kill their classmate in an attempt to please the fictional horror character Slender Man should be tried as adults.

But she "wouldn't trade him for another husband," as she put it, and while she had never wanted her husband to be a pilot, at this point she would be alarmed if he left aviation in an attempt to please her.

Stig Høgset at THEM Anime Reviews, however, panned the series in part because it "overloads the story with too many elements in an attempt to please as many people as possible".

In this vein, the play was an attempt to please the anglophile public, but create something truly American in setting and theme.

Officials now often talk of setting up "happiness indices" by which government performance should be judged.The word's popularity among bureaucrats is more an attempt to please leaders in Beijing and show sympathy for the less well-off than a sign of any real determination to change their ways.

Instead he finds himself remembering his mother singing in the same wordless way in a futile attempt to please her lover.

It is apparent that the BBC's mission is to focus only on Israeli anti-terror policy and to criticize everything Israel does no matter how many concesions she make in a futile attempt to please her Arab neighbours and live in peace with them.

I was no longer living my life in a misguided attempt to please other people.