Sentence examples for make an attempt on from inspiring English sources

Within two years, he was ready to make an attempt on the Channel.

Along the way he is likely to make an attempt on the World Hour Record, which has been provisionally pencilled in for the end of June, he told the Guardian in August.

You can opt for a slimmer African adventure, with a surface leg from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam that allows you to take a Masai Mara safari, make an attempt on Mount Kenya or Kilimanjaro, and enjoy the Indian Ocean beaches of Mombasa or Zanzibar.

Russian Newsweek editor Alexander Gordeyev, whose office is in the same building as Forbes, ran to Klebnikov's side after he was shot in the street, and said that Klebnikov did not know why he had been targeted: "He had never felt someone was about to make an attempt on his life.

General Guei, who came to power after a coup last December, said a presidential election would go ahead as planned on Oct. 22. "Some young military people were more or less invited by certain people who are known to me to make an attempt on my life," he said at a news conference.

Another of Wiggins' compatriots, Alex Dowsett, will make an attempt on the mark on 2 May in Manchester.

"He could wait for no help, or make an attempt to operate on himself".

Don't make an attempt to engage on atheism each and every time you get together.

Don't make an attempt to add them on Facebook or any other such website that displays your personal information.

We will make an attempt to accommodate requests dependent on the shop's training workload demands for the semester.

So far as we know no one has actually made an attempt on the lives of Presidents Johnson or Nixon, controversial as their policies have been.