Sentence examples for nearest attempt from inspiring English sources

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The nearest attempt was probably Michael Winterbottom's honourable attempt in his film Everyday.

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Eight minutes from time Salah broke again and Marco Streller's near-post attempt was deflected behind for a corner.

A similar tax logic was behind the controversial and failed near-£70bn attempt by America's Pfizer to buy Britain's AstraZeneca earlier this year.

Many assumed that the near-miss attempt on Mr Saleh's life would put paid to his ambitions to hang on.

Kurt Barnard, president of Barnard's Retail Trend Report, called the campaign part of a "near-desperate attempt by Levi's to change its image from dowdy to with it".

Norwich had late chances to level when Nathan Redmond fired wide and Patrick Bamford's near-post attempt was saved by the Swansea goalkeeper, Lukasz Fabianski.

"The Last Dymaxion" covers Fuller's dark side as well as his innovations: his youthful heavy drinking, fondness for showgirls, expulsion from Harvard and a "near suicide attempt" by drowning in Lake Michigan.

I see the red card," chants Booth (played by Mos Def) as he faces us in underwear and robe, shuffling and shifting with a jumpy, near-desperate attempt at hustler savoir-faire.

The Camp for Climate Action is targeting the most serious near-term attempt by world leaders to put economic ideology ahead of physical reality: the use of complex carbon markets to try to solve climate change.

Chelsea's better opportunities, Alex's horrible miss from a yard out aside, had generally been provided by their captain, though Drogba had rather scuffed Yuri Zhirkov's early free-kick and then seen Andriy Dykan block a near-post attempt.

After a near-suicide attempt in the parking lot of a Louisiana burger bar, Bailey decides to get help, checking into a specialist Berkeley clinic where he proceeds to offend residents and staff with his complete lack of social graces.

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