Sentence examples for mount an attempt from inspiring English sources

He and his supporters are holding out the threat that if the mayor is not given his wish, they will mount an attempt to repeal the term limits law so he can run for re-election in November.

It is the first time the record has been broken since the sport's governing body, the UCI, relaxed the rules on the equipment which can be used, after which the 2012 Tour de France champion, Sir Bradley Wiggins, stated his intention to mount an attempt on the record.

Patrols were also used to ensure that the garrison stayed in the interior of the fort and did not attempt to emerge and mount an attempt to retake the fort.

In the winter of 1246 47 Henry mounted an attempt to conquer Swabia, the key to Hohenstaufen power in Germany.

In the days after September 11, Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, mounted an attempt to include Iraq in the war against terror.

In the late seventies, a speculators' pool led by the Hunt brothers mounted an attempt to corner the world's silver market, and at one point controlled an amount equivalent to an entire year's global production.

Rabiot agreed a long-term deal in October 2014 that ties him down to the club until the summer of 2019, although he came close to leaving earlier this year when Roma mounted an attempt to sign him on a permanent deal.

In 1872 an Austro-Hungarian expedition aboard the Tegetthoff under the command of Karl Weyprecht and Julius Payer mounted an attempt on the passage from the west, intending to winter at either Cape Chelyuskin or the New Siberian Islands.

It also suggests she is mounting an attempt to move on to Labour's turf and address the concerns of voters who opted for Brexit in the hope that it might improve their circumstances.

Nigel Farage has mounted an attempt to claim all the political credit if the UK votes to leave the EU, declaring the leave campaign has stolen Ukip's slogans and policies.

Even as late as last week, long after the John Rodgers's steel became part of a gleaming Mexico City skyscraper or perhaps a Puebla-built Volkswagen, yet another Florida-based group was mounting an attempt to save the ship; it had no idea that the John Rodgers had been gone for more than a year.