Sentence examples for prevented an attempt from inspiring English sources

The British champion managed 92kg in the snatch and 113kg in the clean and jerk, despite suffering a leg spasm which prevented an attempt at 115kg.

She attempted to ram Potemkin but sailors sympathetic to the mutiny reversed the engines and then prevented an attempt by Captain Kolands to blow his own ship by severing the detonating wires.

But Ms. Bhutto's party, which has been negotiating a power-sharing deal with General Musharraf, chose only to abstain from the vote, preventing an attempt to declare the vote invalid.

A swift enough takeover of the oilfields would prevent an attempt by the Iraqi leader to blow them up, and stop the Turks and Kurds from arriving there first and getting into a fight for them.

John Edwards claims that protection against self-incrimination in his campaign finance prosecution should prevent an attempt to depose him in another case involving a purported sex tape made with his mistress.

That nobody believes she is personally corrupt might not prevent an attempt to impeach her, though that still looks improbable.No modern Brazilian president has faced a weaker starting point.

When asked how far he would go to prevent an attempt to repeal the controversial policy from being approved in the upper congressional chamber, McCain responded by saying, "Absolutely I will filibuster or stop it from being brought up until we have a thorough and complete study on the effect of morale and battle effectiveness".

All recruited patients were diagnosed as having non-resectable disease, defined as involving the edge of the mesorectal fascia or adherence of the tumour to an adjacent structure or organ, preventing an attempt at resection with a negative circumferential resection margin (CRM).

The area's entire police force was then "withdrawn to prevent an attempted honor killing".

The government claimed that this raid prevented an assassination attempt on Mr Morales.

By 2014, he made it as high as Everest's Camp 2, but the tragedy prevented a summit attempt.