Sentence examples for make an active attempt from inspiring English sources

Though I wanted to be a writer since I was 9, I did not make an active attempt to pursue this passion until I was 43.

Sadly for Wenger, Arsenal's current stock is so low that even when he makes an active attempt to win a trophy he once treated as, at worst, an irrelevance and at best a minor bauble, it still eludes him and them.

"I'm making an active effort to get over it.

"Russia intends to make an active contribution to this process".

"Was this a typo or an active attempt to make the word bigger?" PS: Why is 'smallest' a bigger word than 'small'small

And that makes his case even sadder in some ways than those of Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, James Holmes at Aurora, or Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech, none of whom seems to have made a very active attempt to forestall his derangement.

As these can be corrected, an active attempt must be made to identify them when patients present to the ER with AE-COPD.

Owens said he suspects it was mostly an attempt to avoid controversy, rather than an active attempt to appease Republicans.

I was making an active rejection of everything female in an attempt to deny something that was becoming ever more clear to me.

The Knicks and the Nets will at least make an attempt to be active.

It makes no active attempt to manage care (utilization controls, disease management, coordinating care and so on), because it has not been allowed by Congress to do so.