Sentence examples for overdue attempt from inspiring English sources

Supporters say this is a long overdue attempt to end the hypocrisies and contradictions surrounding prostitution in France.

He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain's welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.

TERI plans to include Kolahoi in an index of benchmark glaciers that span the Himalayas, part of an overdue attempt to monitor the rate of glacial decline in the range.

ID cards were abandoned, DNA samples of innocent citizens were destroyed, and – with Ken Clarke at the Ministry of Justice – there was an overdue attempt to challenge mass incarceration.

To a lot of the president's critics and some of his supporters, the change was an overdue attempt by the White House to gain control of what the chattering class calls "Rummy's war," but which history will remember as Mr. Bush's war.

In Parry's view, Disraeli's foreign policy "can be seen as a gigantic castle in the air (as it was by Gladstone), or as an overdue attempt to force the British commercial classes to awaken to the realities of European politics".

The more recent antipathy felt by ranchers towards the BLM stems from the agency's overdue attempts to enforce federal land regulations, after many years of turning a blind eye to ranchers' bending the rules.

To others, however, they are a long-overdue attempt to gauge a putatively cheap fuel's true external costs.

The amendments, the government says, represented a long-overdue attempt to revamp a Constitution ratified after a military coup whose 30th anniversary was on Sunday.

The white paper is a politically timid, if long-overdue, attempt to change direction.In this section An inspector calls On the brink of recession?

More than two decades after the mass slaughter in Cambodia, a critical moment is at hand in a long-overdue attempt to bring the killers to justice.