Sentence examples for one was attempting from inspiring English sources

A few years later in Monrovia, in the midst of the Ebola crisis, Filiep Decorte, the chief technical adviser for UN Habitat, was shocked to realise that no one was attempting to map the city and develop a detailed understanding of its demographics.

Luke Strandquist, a Bikram instructor in New York City who placed third among the men, said he had no problem with the notion of competitive yoga, since the tournaments were limited to the physical aspects of yoga — no one was attempting to rank enlightenment or inner peace.

No one was attempting to mislead or to undermine the peer review, it concludes.

In 1995 Watanabe led two delegations to North Korea; one was attempting to normalize relations, and the other negotiated a deal for Japan to provide 300,000 tons of rice in emergency aid to North Korea.

Secondly, one is only engaging in an attempt to silence if one is insincere in one's assertions — if one is attempting primarily to silence, rather than to assert the truth.

In practice, this seed gene would be an ortholog of the genes one is attempting to infer; one collects S using similarity searching on the complete trace archive for the species of interest.

No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife.

Without resting after this treatment, one risks further unbalancing the very condition one is attempting to heal.

The man is not 'taking' and the woman is not 'giving.' No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife.

The ILO puts their recent productivity growth at 4.4%.Productivity is a slippery concept, especially when one is attempting general conclusions about such a mixed bunch as the ASEAN countries.

"What it does tell you is that there is a great degree of frankness and that no one is attempting to paper over cracks in the wall," a delegate from one of the countries said.