Sentence examples for protracted attempts to from inspiring English sources

Even protracted attempts to frame the principles for discussion of these matters have failed.

Some time in her protracted attempts to stay in the UK, a deportation order was issued against her, which she says she was not told about.

When Attenborough's protracted attempts to make a film about Thomas Paine, the 18th century humanitarian and republican, fell through, he turned to another of his idols in Chaplin (1992), a sprawling, vacuous homage to the great comic.

Their chief executive, Stewart Regan, has come under fire following the failure of his protracted attempts to persuade Northern Ireland's Michael O'Neill to fill that vacancy but Rodgers believes Lennon, another Northern Irishman, ticks all the boxes.

Prosecutors claimed more than £100,000 from Huhne, who pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial in February 2013, after months of denials and protracted attempts to get the case against him thrown out.

A masterpiece of a different kind is Hisham Matar's The Return, an unstintingly truthful account of his protracted attempts to discover the facts about the disappearance of his father, a prominent opponent of Muammar Gaddafi.

It will also be interesting to see what film academy voters make of "Saving Mr. Banks," a warmly sentimental, behind-the-scenes story about Walt Disney's (Hanks) protracted attempt to persuade the famously prickly British author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to sign away the screen rights to her beloved creation, Mary Poppins.

For years, hedge fund speculators had followed Porsche's protracted attempt to gain control of Volkswagen.

Negotiations could be tense, as ill will remains from G.M.'s protracted attempt to sell the company three years ago.

Yet, Hilton failed last year in a protracted attempt to buy the ITT Corporation, which owned the Sheraton hotel chain and Caesars casinos.

Indeed, he is even enthusiastic about an interview he did with a guitar magazine this morning, which sounds, to the unqualified observer at least, like a protracted attempt to bore the former teen idol to death.