Sentence examples for refused to attempt from inspiring English sources

He also refused to attempt a full explanation for what went wrong for Labour, saying it was too early for him to have an answer.

The judgment has wide implications for the application of the act to public service broadcasting, although the judge refused to attempt to define "the purposes of journalism". The BBC has refused more than 400 requests on the same basis.

After struggling for a minute to answer the question on an LBC radio phone-in, Johnson also failed two questions from a quiz presented like an IQ test and refused to attempt to answer a third, saying: "No one said IQ is the only measure of ability".

The administration that now offers the excuse that HSBC is too big to prosecute is the same one that quite consciously refused to attempt to break up these banks in the aftermath of the "too-big-to-fail" crisis of 2008, as former TARP overseer Neil Barofsky, among others, has spent years arguing.

Despite an increase to approximately one acre (4,000 square metres, 4,800 square yards) in area, the deck was still significantly smaller than other Cold War era carriers; S-2 Trackers, with their 22.12 m wingspan, had less than a metre's clearance for their starboard wingtip when landing, and pilots from other navies often refused to attempt landing.

The commander of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, also refused to attempt a heavy bomber raid on Tirpitz on the grounds that the Kaafjord area was beyond the effective range of these aircraft and the battleship's guns would cause heavy casualties.

I am fortunate to have married a man who refuses to attempt DIY.

Our modified McIndoe procedure has proved to be an excellent option for patients for whom conservative dilation techniques failed and who refuse to attempt any dilation.

However, I feel as if I am constantly defending my humanity to people who refuse to attempt to understand me, and who perhaps wish I did not exist at all.

In the state of nature, a person could refuse to attempt to punish others if doing so would risk his life and so Locke reasons that individuals may not have consented to allow the state to risk their lives for altruistic punishment of international crimes.

But refusing to attempt any sort of reconciliation at all is frankly the worst, weakest, and least wise consensus.