Sentence examples for made a determined attempt from inspiring English sources

It has made a determined attempt to erase from history the 1989 pro-democracy movement and the subsequent deaths of many demonstrators.

On the same visit to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu he made a determined attempt on the White Slab – perhaps the finest of all courses on Welsh rock, its ascent not completed until 1956.

Kasparov made a determined attempt to defeat Kramnik, his former protege and match assistant, in a positional battle, but as he has so often in this series, Kramnik defended himself smoothly.

But since the fiasco of the Mish'al plot, its assassinations have mostly been confined to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where Israel made a determined attempt over the past ­decade to decapitate Hamas of its entire leadership.

Mr. Glass is a Tibetan Buddhist, Mr. Reich has made a determined attempt to come to terms with the roots of his Judaism, Mr. Riley and Mr. Young have plunged into Indian religions and lifestyles as well as music.

Nevertheless, the classicizing theorists of the 16th century made a determined attempt to explain existing poetry by the rules of short and long and to draft "laws" by which modern verse might move in Classical metres.

Mr Rohter does, however, make a determined attempt to answer the third, arguing that Brazil has the same sort of racism that America suffered from.

Not until the reign of Pope Alexander VI (1492 1503) did the papacy make a determined attempt to assert authority over the whole state.

Up front, Treasure Beach was making a determined attempt to be the second outsider in as many days to steal a Classic.

But resistance leaders in Paris made a determined effort to stop all head-shaving.

Blackburn have made a determined effort to do so this season but botched it spectacularly.