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

At age 30, he is running out of time, which might help explain why he flew all the way to Sydney in an attempt to qualify Switzerland for the 2012 World Group.

Despite the fears of some, I don't believe the criteria will force films to insert arbitrary black, female, disabled, working-class or LGBT+ characters in an attempt to qualify.

Thirty years ago this bag, these clubs, were slung across Maurice Flitcroft's back as he set off around the Formby course in an attempt to qualify for the 1976 Open.

Employers with between 50 and 99 full-time equivalent employees will generally be exempt from any penalties in 2015, unless they eliminate or materially reduce health coverage in 2014 or 2015 or reduce the size of their workforce in 2014 in an attempt to qualify for the transition rule.

His heyday was brief and it was while trying to make a comeback at the age of 40, in an attempt to qualify for the 2002 Winter Olympics and, he believed, win back the wife who had divorced him, that he fell heavily during the national championships in Montana.

British alpine skier Ed Drake has switched to ski cross in an attempt to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

He briefly came out of retirement in 1992 in an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the Olympic team in the 50-metre butterfly race.

A week before Mr. Peevski was elected to his security post by the Parliament, the law for the position was changed in an apparent attempt to qualify him despite no intelligence experience and just seven months in the state investigation service.

Banda said the investigation, which he characterized as "large, complex... and ongoing," focused on misrepresentations Orange-based CheckMate may have made to its insurance carriers in an alleged attempt to qualify for lower premiums.

Aid can often create dependency among recipient countries, diverting genuine development efforts in a desperate attempt to qualify for the next injection of funds.

The United States finds itself in a familiar position in its attempt to qualify for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.