Sentence examples for secret attempt from inspiring English sources

A secret attempt by Himmler to negotiate Germany's surrender led Hitler to fire him in late April 1945 and order his arrest.

Even with that limitation, one of Mr. Silver's appointees to a separate legislative ethics body made a secret attempt to alter the state commission's report, seeking unsuccessfully to excise references to Mr. Silver and his staff.

Here, too, Nietzsche arrived first, as in his last work, "Nietzsche Contra Wagner," from the chapter titled "Wagner as the Apostle of Chastity": … "Parsifal" is a work of perfidy, of vindictiveness, of a secret attempt to poison the presuppositions of life — a bad work.

The three were part of a colossal, secret attempt to record every detail of ghetto life in an archive - David's "great treasure".

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One chance for freeing Anderson was a secret attempt by the Reagan administration to reach out to Iran.

The 2007 Israeli destruction of an illicit Syrian reactor demonstrated the effectiveness of conventional military strikes in stymieing secret attempts to acquire a nuclear capacity.

With an expanded international force and a new arms embargo, secret attempts to replace hundreds of missiles from Iran and Syria will be far more difficult.

When secret attempts to take David's life proved no more successful than Saul's efforts to turn the hearts of his daughter Michal Davidd's wife) and his son Jonathan away from their winsome husband and friend, Saul declared openly his intention to slay David.

A scheming woman and her husband visit a fertility clinic when her secret attempts to conceive fail.

There are hundreds of them in the parks (the book "Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Walt Disney World's Best Kept Secrets" attempts to catalog them) but on the 18th sunlight will stream through the rocks to create one of the most unusual (and fleeting) hidden Mickeys.