Sentence examples for made abortive efforts from inspiring English sources

Individually, they made abortive efforts to protect the boys.

One theory is that she is paranoid and sees Yunus as a threat, especially since he made an abortive effort to enter politics in 2007.

Mr. Webster, who had left Orbital Sciences in the early 1990's to pursue his dream of becoming a sculptor, agreed to become the chief executive of Orbcomm in 1998, shortly before it made an abortive effort at a public stock offering.

Unlike Trescothick, Yardy is unlikely to make abortive attempts to resume his England career.

Regarding the episode's title, Tina Fey explained that "it came out of a discussion in the writers' room" when she asked, "you know what two words I cannot pronounce properly?" After a few abortive efforts by Fey's co-writers, who also made "rural juror" sound akin to "ruhhr-juhhrr," everyone was so pleased that "[they] wanted to hurry up and get it on the air before someone else did".

Yet politicians have been soliciting similar proposals since 2007, without bringing any to fruition; abortive efforts at Peterhead go back even further.

Mr. Kissinger so trusted Mr. Eagleburger that he asked him to become involved in secret diplomacy with the Cubans when an abortive effort was made to see if relations could be established.

The criticism, and his abortive efforts to continue working, caused him to attempt suicide in 1971.

Most of these abortive efforts are simple testaments to Pota's failure of imagination.

His heroin addiction has rendered him impotent and the plot concerns Holly's abortive efforts to save him from himself and the oddities they meet on the way.

After several abortive efforts over nearly three decades, Congress is taking the first steps this week toward the likely overhaul of the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service.