Sentence examples for serial attempts from inspiring English sources

It's odd how despite the serial attempts to change the tone of Prime Ministers' Questions it invariably slides back to its normal mood music.

The rules, to come into force in July, will limit the number of times a loan can be rolled over to two, and will also prevent lenders making serial attempts to collect repayments from borrowers' bank accounts.

Five years ago, an encounter with the Times virtually stalled when the singer took exception to what he saw as the British press's serial attempts to out him from a closet he had no interest in occupying.

Ruth Anne (Bone) Boatwright, the novel's narrator, is recounting things she couldn't possibly remember — about her mother, Annie, becoming pregnant with her at the age of fifteen; about Annie's serial attempts to get the literal red-ink stamp of illegitimacy removed from infant Bone's birth certificate; about the lawyers and courthouse clerks who laugh at those attempts.

A study of 14 severe banking crises in the 20th century by Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Ken Rogoff of Harvard University shows that public debt rises by an average of 86% in real terms in the years after big financial busts, as economies flag and governments are forced into serial attempts to revitalise them.Default or high inflation are common.

His memoir is set 15 years ago in a locked-door psychiatric ward -- referred to variously as "the Bin," a "madhouse" and "the bughouse" -- where the author was confined for six months after having made serial suicide attempts, two of which were hilariously botched.

She may have been an urban terrorist, a tourist hostess, a pornographic movie star, or an artist whose subject matter was her own serial suicide-attempts.

In Hate-Kill-Repeat, two religious serial killers attempt to find Jason at Crystal Lake, believing that the three of them share the same contempt for those that break the moral code.

Each read set took 3 to 4 h to upload and analyse using these websites, and had to be done in serial as attempting to run multiple jobs crashed Java.

Q.P. is a homosexual serial killer who attempts to lobotomize his victims with an ice-pick.

By Joyce Carol Oates The New Yorker, October 24 , 1994P. 86 Q.P. is a homosexual serial killer who attempts to lobotomize his victims with an ice-pick.