Sentence examples for in an attempt to settle from inspiring English sources
He allegedly used the powerful narcotic in an attempt to settle down his two-month-old daughter, police allege.
She's dead now, and the two old men, with very little future ahead of them, pass a long night in an attempt to settle blame.
In an attempt to settle, I bought a house (it was mainly the bank's but I liked to pretend it was my own).
Microsoft presented a proposal in an attempt to settle the antitrust case filed by the Justice Department and 19 states against the company.
Those requirements became moot when Congress, in an attempt to settle the lawsuit, passed a bill with the state's blessing that gave the tribe federal recognition.
In an attempt to settle the matter once and for all, Nepal this week launched a two-year geodesic survey to measure the Himalayan peak.
The courtroom scenes turn on an attempt to settle an election in the courts, which inevitably evokes what will happen in Florida in 2000 between Gore and Bush.
James Brooke (NYT) BRAZIL: ASIAN TRIP -- After stopping in Vancouver in an unsuccessful attempt to settle a growing trade dispute with Canada over aircraft manufacturing subsidies, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has set off on an Asian trip that will make him the first Brazilian president to visit South Korea and Indonesia and is aimed at strengthening trade ties.
In an initial attempt to settle the area, the government declared the land open for pastoral settlement by ordinary settlers, but little progress was made.
The union fell short in its attempt to settle all the contracts at once by the expiration of the previous pacts on Sunday night.
