Sentence examples for modest attempt at from inspiring English sources

Yet Rodman's own modest attempt at diplomacy was short-lived.

John Pietrzak is trading overnight on Project A, the Board's modest attempt at electronic trading.

The government has made a modest attempt at taking over bad loans through the Resolution and Collection Corporation (RCC), a public body created in 1999 and largely financed by the Bank of Japan.

There's even a modest attempt at decor, with knickknacks and floral arrangements to distract from the gas pumps that stand like sentinels outside (sentinels with fingers in their ears?).

There has even been a modest attempt at reintroducing curry to the country of its birth by British Asian chefs.

Even the relatively modest attempt at burden sharing within the eurozone, a banking union that would initiate an "all-for-one" approach to reconstructing failing banks, is nowhere in sight.

In the United States, Republicans in Congress have vowed to block President Obama's modest attempts at economic stimulus, while demanding deeper cuts certain to produce another recession.

In five of the last seven quarters, government has contributed negatively to growth, again thanks mostly to large state- and local-government cuts that offset the federal government's modest attempts at stimulus.

Nobuko Miyamoto – the late Itami's wife – plays the eponymous noodle cook whose modest attempts at keeping her ramen cafe going after her husband's death are met with disdain when long-distance trucker Goro (Tsutomo Yamazaki), pure John Wayne swagger in his cowboy hat, sits down one night and tries a bowl.

On the libertarian Hit & Run blog, Peter Suderman argues that congressional legislators have "actively resisted even modest attempts at oversight... under the pretence that those modest efforts would undermine national security".

Google's new Daydream View VR headset is available starting today, and the fabric-encased, lightweight plastic Cardboard successor is a big step up, not only from Google's first modest attempts at creating a VR headset, but also for mobile virtual reality in general.