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

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After misses by both Bryant and O'Neal, Kings center Vlade Divac tapped the ball away from the rim in an attempt to wind down the clock.

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It's an attempt to wind up Hammond, as he brings his beloved Mustang to the picturesque Cheddar Gorge.

Nevertheless, he winds up on a dating show, in an attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend.

The recently signed Council of Palm Oil Producing Nations between Indonesia and Malaysia, signed at the weekend in Kuala Lumpur, will attempt to wind back palm oil companies' pledges to end deforestation.

On Thursday, two days after Brazil's largest political party announced plans to abandon its governing coalition with President Dilma Rousseff's Workers Partyy, an estimated 800,000 protesters took to the streets in 94 cities across the country in an attempt to blow wind into the sails of an administration that many have already declared a sinking ship.

As Obama attempts to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it appears this new high seas threat to Americans could send our brave men and women embarking on one more swashbuckling adventure before they get home.

However, in an attempt to ensure new wind farm developments don't dry up altogether, the Government has offered residents a five-fold increase in financial incentives to host a power plant.

In a proposal that has all the elegance of strapping leg splints on a Dalek, they have resolved to erect a cumbersome series of frames around the base of the building, from which screens and canopies will be hung in an attempt to mitigate the wind.

The Poppies will apply for a recession order in the next seven days, on the basis that the sum of the debt is in dispute, in an attempt to overturn the winding-up order.

Ellison's team has had a head start in preparation, launching its trimaran, dubbed Dogzilla, last year and spending months training in an attempt to corral its huge wind power.

In earlier experiments, we attempted to wound the cell by poking it with a microneedle, as is performed for other cells such as animal eggs and fibroblasts, but this was difficult because the cell size was much smaller (less than 10 µm in diameter) and because the cells actively migrated without rigid adhesion to the substratum.

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