Sentence examples for infamous attempt from inspiring English sources

They recall his infamous attempt to crown himself commander of the faithful while prime minister in 1998, and point to his family's conservative background.

Older and seemingly unrepentant, Yasin Abu Bakr, the spiritual leader of the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, has endured, even if its infamous attempt to remake Trinidad did not.

This is one step down the ethical ladder from Exxon's infamous attempt to unload full responsibility for the Exxon Valdez disaster on the captain of its ship (who doubtless bore the largest share of responsibility, but not the entire burden).

The infamous attempt to overthrow Castro – the US-financed and planned 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion by rightwing Cuban exiles – came soon after, and was followed, as was later learned, by a string of CIA assassination plots.

Ipsa insisted that the publication contained "no duck houses" – a reference to the now infamous attempt by the Conservative Sir Peter Viggers to claim such an item under the old system.

A handmade terracotta sculpture of baby Jesus's head that was added to a broken statue outside a Catholic church in Canada has prompted amusement and disappointment, with some likening it to the now infamous attempt by a Spanish woman to restore a crumbling fresco of Jesus.

Among Big Tobacco's most infamous attempts to boost sales were ads that bamboozled smokers by using pseudomedical jargon.

His gained widest acclaim when he helped uncover the infamous attempts by the government to cover up the espionage activities of Austrian Colonel Redl, a spy who revealed secrets to various foreign governments.

Ms. Marsh rightly asks where the sale of Detroit's cultural assets would lead and cites the infamous, botched attempt of Brandeis University to sell off its collection.

Today's 'Voter Fraud' Efforts Recall Infamous 1990 Attempt To Deter Black Vote.

In a "sneak preview" of the cover of their pending issue, the Seattle alt-weekly has remixed Sarah Palin's famous "crosshairs" map into an image depicting the locations of various infamous political assassination attempts, including the recent attempt on the life of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.