Sentence examples for middle of attempting from inspiring English sources

But Variety magazine cautioned that lawyers were still in the middle of attempting to secure rights to the 16 original Beatles songs, including All You Need is Love and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

The kind of political prostitution that the Moreland Commission was in the middle of attempting to document — elected officials representing the interests not of their constituents but of their largest contributors — does not constitute, in the view of the Supreme Court, either corruption or the appearance of corruption.

One of the more heartbreaking moments of my life was visiting her apartment one day, a few weeks after her shoulder surgery, and discovering her in the middle of attempting to play the violin, skronking and screeching around on it like a novice.

In the middle of an attempted turnaround, Newsweek and The Daily Beast now face a future without the financing of the billionaire Sidney Harman, whose family said on Monday that it would no longer invest in the newsmagazine and Web site.

Shares in Monte dei Paschi, the most sensitive bank as it is in the middle of an attempted recapitalisation, were volatile over the day, eventually closing down by almost 5pc, which is a painful move but hardly a market rout.

Birds' interventions were most successful when they placed themselves in the middle of the pair attempting to bond.

Court documents obtained by KIRO 7 show the suspect had been contacted by police several times over the past few years for incidents including running around naked, climbing on rooftops naked, smashing a bus window, and lying in the middle of the road attempting to be run over.

With Vodafone currently in the middle of an attempt to buy Kabel Deutschland, it is clear the company is on the acquisition trail in Europe but whether it wants to take on another deal at the moment is uncertain.

In the middle of THREE attempts to correctly spell "hereby" in an attack tweet, Trump tweeted about the importance of education.

Other ex-action stars, bereft of the big screen, have dealt with the onset of late middle age by attempting to meddle in the workings of the real world.

Now, though, he has been thrown a lifeline by Gavin Stamp, the architectural historian, whose compelling new biography of "Middle Scott" attempts to redeem a misunderstood artist, and in the process explain why it would be unfair to judge Scott Jr's career on the disturbing experience of St John's.