Sentence examples for most important attempts from inspiring English sources

Among those who invoked Jespersen were Morris Halle and Samuel Jay Keyser, whose essay "Chaucer and the Study of Prosody" (1966) became, in the decade after its publication, one of the most important attempts to develop this science.

One of the first and most important attempts at creating a modern Arabic poetic diction was made in the late 1940s by the Iraqi poet and critic Nāzik al-Malāʾikah (died 2007), whose poems, in free but rhyming verse, gave substance to the shadow of her melancholia.

Among the engineering materials, one of the most important attempts, while maintaining or improving the products' features, has been the achievement of lightweight cost-effective materials and, in the light of foaming, these attempts became successful especially in the field of polymer engineering.

And so began the latest, and perhaps most important, attempt by Mitt Romney to wrest Ohio into his column.

In 2002 President Bush signed the most important attempt in a generation to reduce the influence of money in politics, the McCain-Feingold bill.

The Shanghai zone has been touted as the most important attempt at economic reform since the establishment of the country's first special economic zone in 1980 in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.

The report is the latest, and in some ways the most important, attempt to grapple with the technical-sounding question of a middle tier in education – in other words, who takes charge of the various education functions that sit outside of schools.

In Kafka's most important attempt at autobiography, "Brief an den Vater" (written 1919; "Letter to Father"), a letter that never reached the addressee, Kafka attributed his failure to live to cut loose from parental ties and establish himself in marriage and fatherhood as well as his escape into literature, to the prohibitive father figure, which instilled in him the sense of his own impotence.

The new zone is being seen as the most important attempt at reform since Communist leader Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's transformation to a market economy, designated Shenzhen on the border with Hong Kong a special economic zone in 1980.

The primary intervention was defined as the treatment or other manoeuvre that represented the most important attempt to cure, alleviate, or care for the patient in respect of his or her primary diagnosis [ 3].

The most important attempt to date to provide a clinical instrument to monitor the biomechanical response of the cornea has been the Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA, Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments, Buffalo, New York, USA) [ 24].