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

Brushtail possums were specially imported from Australia, in an attempt to start a fur industry.

To tear up the older generation's values in an attempt to start again is the very definition of teenage rebellion.

Kulsoom Sharif was prevented from leaving her house after she staged a nine-hour standoff with the police on Saturday in an attempt to start an antigovernment march.

The police said Leyritz had blown into the Breathalyzer in an attempt to start his car, but the device indicated he had been drinking.

In an attempt to start addressing the problem, just last month the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposed the world's first carbon dioxide emissions standards for aircraft.

Mets Manager Terry Collins said Turner should have gone to home plate first for the forceout — "It wasn't a big, high hopper" — or to second base in an attempt to start a double play.

In 2010, an attempt to start an American team called USF1, based in North Carolina, failed before the season began for lack of financing.

In an attempt to jump start the flat-lining uranium trade, successive federal governments have preferred enthusiasm to evidence.

Vontobel Holding A.G., a family-owned Swiss bank, fired three top executives after spending about $100 million in an unsuccessful attempt to start an Internet bank.

The era when it lost $8.3 million in a failed attempt to start a retail operation in the Mall of America.

The combination of repression and poverty has driven tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of young people out of the country in recent years, many of whom have head across the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast in a desperate attempt to start new lives in Europe.