Sentence examples for midst of attempting from inspiring English sources

Not one of those naturalised immigrants, but one who is the midst of attempting to extend his stay in this country right now.

Interrupting one of Nathalie's classes with a phone call, Yvette declares that she's in the midst of attempting suicide yet again, and she ends up in a nursing home.

Chelsea are in the midst of attempting to prise Demba Ba away from Newcastle and even though club sources have admitted negotiations with the Senegalese forward's representatives have been "unproductive", Benitez has spoken of his need to "manage" Torres through periods of rest.

The European Space Agency is in the midst of attempting a first of its kind space mission: to land a probe on a comet.

In an interview with Portfolio, Kotick took a swing at Electronic Arts, saying that EA, which is in the midst of attempting to buy Take-Two Interactive, crushes innovation.

In one report, from April this year, a low-speed rear-shunt occurred when a robot car — in the midst of attempting to turn right at an intersection — applied the brakes to avoid an oncoming car, after initially creeping forward.

In the same period, Israelis have killed nearly 180 Palestinians during demonstrations or allegedly in the midst of attempted stabbings.

Signals frugality even in midst of attempt to be generous?

And yet, amazingly enough, eight months later - now in the midst of attempts by Gitmo dead-enders to turn the aborted Exploding Christmas Underpants plot into a political cudgel - Bumiller is at it again, though this time chasing Bloomberg, et al., rather than leading the pack.

BP derives its authority to act from an occupying power in the midst of an attempted genocide.

In the midst of drunken attempts at getting laid, I can also feebly attempt to slur something about enlightenment, maybe even misquote a sentence or two from the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture.