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

I saw others travelling to conferences, dinners and talks in an attempt to rectify this.

In an attempt to rectify the situation, they are conducting a vote, via the Internet.

In 1943 she was sent to the Bradford Civic Playhouse, then run by JB Priestley and the formidable Esme Church, in an attempt to rectify her stutter.

A year ago I was still a student, clawing my way through my final year in an attempt to rectify the previous months of oversleeping and under working.

"He accepts responsibility for his transgression and will work with both the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the S.E.C. in an attempt to rectify the consequences of his conduct".

In an attempt to rectify that, this year's national championships for men and women will be folded into the New York City Marathon, on Nov. 4, with Americans wearing different-colored numbers.

Since they have not been annotated, they are not included in current gene databases, gene counts or the presented assembled sequences; the database we present in this study is an attempt to rectify this.

Harvard College made an attempt to rectify institutionalized inequality in last year's decision to bar members of exclusive "final clubs" – single-sex, exclusive social clubs – from occupying leadership roles in school-sanctioned clubs or athletics and from receiving top academic scholarships like Rhodes or Fulbright.

As an attempt to rectify this oversight, in 2008 the government enacted Law 72, a system that allowed indigenous communities living outside the recognised comarcas to apply for a separate land title.

There is a dearth of senior women in Silicon Valley so the perks offered by Apple and Facebook could be seen as an attempt to rectify the gender imbalance.

"Third Space is an attempt to rectify that".