Sentence examples for not only attempted from inspiring English sources

Mr Monbiot explained he satisfied their conditions as not only attempted the citizen's arrest but attracted the attention of the media.

But this, happily, is what Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate from 1999 to 2009, has not only attempted but accomplished, with deft derring-do.

Günzburg not only attempted to ameliorate governmental oppression but also actively supported organizations working in other ways in behalf of the Jews.

Those elites not only attempted to control their own people, but also sought to shape and taint the views of news media in the region and across the world.

The Bolshevik Chairman of the Petrograd Council of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegatess, realizing that there are more ways than one of acquiring real authority, not only attempted its capture by armed force but also by a far more ingenuous plan, which was disclosed today.

"Iraq is the only country in modern history that has not only attempted to develop all categories of weapons of mass destruction -- nuclear, biological and chemical -- but has actually used such weapons, both against a foreign enemy and against its own citizens," Mr. van Walsum said.

Perhaps those conversations were not only attempting to resolve the two preoccupations of every exile: longing and logistics.

The university should not only attempt to control harassment from student to student, but there should be policies on harassment that happens off campus grounds.

Those documents demonstrated not only attempts to impose rational plans on new nations but also the changing attitudes of elites toward their societies.

This winter, the American Psychiatric Association expanded the rule to cover not only attempts at public diagnoses but also "professional opinions" about public figures.

To solve dynamic optimisation problems, the proposed approaches should not only attempt to seek the global optima but be able to also keep track of changes in the track record of landscape solutions.