Sentence examples for making a determined attempt from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"They are making a determined effort to attempt to present the intelligent design theory, and ask that it be judged by normal scientific criteria".

But Ms. Krueger is making a determined effort to locate them them in the 2006 budget.