Sentence examples for ingenious attempts from inspiring English sources

Although there have been ingenious attempts to establish psychological scales with absolute zero points, psychologists usually are content with approximations to interval scales; ordinal scales often are used as well.

Ingenious attempts by the physicists George FitzGerald of Ireland and Hendrik A. Lorentz of the Netherlands to devise a compromise to salvage the notion of ether were eventually superseded by Einstein's special theory of relativity (see relativity).

The City's one attempt at coherence was to try and group towers in a cluster in the approximate location of the Leadenhall Building, but 20 Fenchurch Street stands outside that cluster, despite ingenious attempts to argue otherwise.

It follows Julie Kohler Jeanne Moreauu) on her mission to seek revenge on those who murdered her husband on the day of her wedding, leading to a series of ingenious attempts to kill those offenders.

Not just those who fell in no man's land, or in desperately ingenious attempts to escape by zip-wire, tunnel, even submarine, but the families and friends and colleagues rent and bereft for 28 long years.

Harrison is an intensely informative guide, and steers us effortlessly through 1,500 years of ingenious attempts to manage the watery flatlands, from the Roman dykes to the present-day hydroelectric pumps.

In various ways, the avenue represents an ingenious attempt to live in two countries at once.

Bata's Aparajitas programme marks an ingenious attempt to get around these constraints.

We applaud you, Jason Kidd, for the year's most ingenious attempt at cheating, and thanks to the league's fifty-thousand-dollar fine, for its most expensive soda.

An untold story from Columbia's Neurological Institute demonstrates an ingenious attempt by one physician to thwart what he believed was an unjust policy.

The Murdoch family's doomed attempt to snub the culture committee ("Mr Murdoch regrets, he is unable to appear today... ..) was at the same time shocking in its arrogance and an ingenious attempt to exploit the multiplicity of investigations.