Sentence examples for kill attempt from inspiring English sources

Because nearly all police agencies receive some sort of federal funding, including most local sheriff's departments and town police, the bill basically makes it a federal crime to kill, attempt to kill or conspire to kill any police officer (as well as any judge or first responder).

And it received a huge boost when the Private schools team came up short on the next five possessions, including Kayla Howell's (Monrovia) kill attempt that rippled the net and died on its own end.

This week, with the failure of the "top kill" attempt, the buzz had grown loud enough that federal officials felt compelled to respond.

BP's "top kill" attempt to plug its gushing undersea pipeline was a failure; some estimated that the oil could pour out for weeks to come; and the Justice Department opened civil and criminal investigations into the blast that caused the disaster.

The top kill attempt, which began on Wednesday, involves pumping heavy drilling fluids into the top of the well to try to halt the oil flow.

He said US Energy Secretary Steven Chu was leading a team of "the world's top scientists, engineers and experts" in devising a contingency plan should the "top kill" attempt fail.

T2Well couples a reservoir simulation in which porous media flow is described using Darcy's law with a discretized wellbore in which the Navier-Stokes momentum equation implemented via a drift-flux model (Shi et al., 2005) is used to describe multi-phase fluid transport to allow detailed process modeling of well blowouts and kill attempts.

Declared an exile, Hermocrates was killed attempting to force his way back in the winter of 408 407.

Deserted by virtually all his supporters, including Obregón, he was killed attempting to flee the capital on May 21.

Nine people have been killed attempting to cross the Channel in the last month, according to Eurotunnel.

The death toll between these two democracies dwarfs the number killed attempting to cross the inner-German border during the cold war.