Sentence examples for modest attempt to from inspiring English sources

Consider this a modest attempt to redress the balance.

It's our modest attempt to broaden the world of soccer broadcasting.

The pivotal moment in the trust's history involved a modest attempt to generate some cash.

The museum began in 1996 as a modest attempt to rescue remnants of that era, later leasing city land for its own boneyard of salvaged signs.

They bring to mind a former N.B.A. All-Star's modest attempt to explain his otherworldy playmaking to a group of ordinary mortals.

Congress tiptoed back to the battlefield this month with a modest attempt to legalize some immigrant children who go to college or serve in the military.

Nor did Mr. Walker seem inclined to yield to the singers' modest attempts to expand a phrase here and there.

George Bush's modest attempts to control costs, by means of health savings accounts, have borne little fruit.

He has consistently disapproved of even relatively modest attempts to influence the Chinese government, including hunger strikes and economic boycotts.

A couple of senators made modest attempts to hold the eavesdroppers more accountable by, for example, disclosing the number of law-abiding citizens whose communications have been intercepted.

In the Senate it was none other than Wheeler who denounced Roosevelt's modest attempts to keep Britain afloat as it single-handedly battled Germany.