Sentence examples for make a failed attempt from inspiring English sources

How much is it worth to you for them to make a failed attempt.

The next year, he made a failed attempt at the heavyweight title held by Ezzard Charles.

Her predecessor had made a failed attempt at reorganizing before leaving for the competition.

Inspired by this personal connection, Shenk makes a failed attempt to become a respectable player in his late 30's.

Brady had lobbied for his election, while Belichick made a failed attempt to convince voters to elect defensive lineman Richard Seymour.

It's almost as if he's making a failed attempt to hug the world around him, simultaneously attempting to draw it close and pace away at speed.

(In the preceding century Bradley, who could measure stellar positions only with an accuracy of half a second of arc, had been making a failed attempt to detect stellar parallax when he stumbled instead on the aberration of light).

Later in the act, Brünnhilde becomes so entranced by the crazy love of the siblings that she defies Wotan and makes a failed attempt to save Siegmund's life.

The order came a week after the Passaic County Sheriff's Department made a failed attempt to arrest a man suspected of providing fake identifications to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

In the mid-2000s, he began to seek similar success in politics, making a failed attempt to run as the "candidate of the suburbs" in the 2007 presidential election and following up with another push in the municipal elections the next year.

Roche, which made a failed attempt to acquire Illumina in 2012, this year spent $125 million to buy Genia Technologies, a small nanopore company based in California, and invested in another, Stratos Genomics.