Sentence examples for seriously attempt from inspiring English sources

Ms Bhutto did not seriously attempt to repeal these laws.

We now have more knowledge, technology and scientific tools at our disposal to seriously attempt to put the pieces together.

We are also talking about movies that seriously attempt to analyze the meaning of violence and the social climate that tolerates it.

Therefore, after having successfully made his point against the West, Putin may now find it expedient to seriously attempt a political solution at the conference planned this summer in Geneva, for example by holding back on weapons shipments.

J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after managing the 1964 resolution, changed course and opposed the conflict, but did not seriously attempt to choke off the funds that supported the fighting.

By the 1070s, Gregory VII could seriously attempt to bully the Danish king into holding his realm as a fief from himself; in 1164, Alexander III confirmed the Norwegian warlord Olaf Haraldsson, who had died in battle against Cnut's forces and been the half- brother of Harald Hardrada, as a saint of the Roman Church.

Germany undertook painful structural reforms that the southern Europeans never seriously attempted.

The only one that was seriously attempted was Carlo Pisacane's disastrous landing in Calabria in 1857.

At 30, Burgess decided to start writing seriously, attempting short stories, radio drama and children's fiction.

However, this ignores the fact that the EU appears to be the only body seriously attempting to tackle the problem.

However, in Japan, where the scale of the problem dwarfs any other banking crisis, this approach has not been seriously attempted.