Sentence examples for instance of an attempt from inspiring English sources

I fear that this instance of an attempt to police journalism raises some worrying questions about police attitudes to the media and to Muslims.

It was the first instance of an attempt at self-immolation since a peddler burned himself to death, setting off the country's revolt.

"This was not the first instance of an attempt to hack into our computers," Mr Narayanan told The Times in a rare interview.

As ancient historian Adrienne Mayor notes in Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, Marcellus' directive to take Archimedes alive, assumedly to be put to work for the Roman army, may be the first instance of an attempt to capture an enemy biochemical weapon scientist.

Now this is the first instance of an attempt to size the rat in question.

Let us consider an instance of this attempt to articulate a 'degettiering' condition.

The first instance of a non-governmental attempt to put an issue before the Constitutional Tribunal came from Non-constituency Member of Parliament Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST known instances of an artist attempting to destroy his work comes from the 16th century, when Michelangelo partially defaced a marble Pietà.

Thus, it would be misleading to claim that every instance of nominalization is an attempt to conceal the Agents of the action.

His is not simply a tale of individual sacrifice but an instance of how artists attempt to use cultural [End Page 95] value as a means of mediating the hegemonic force of market values in the age of global capitalism.

It is not the first instance of parents attempting to smuggle their relatively-newborns abroad.