Sentence examples for spectacular attempt from inspiring English sources

Martínez made a spectacular attempt to palm the shot away but his technique failed him and he slapped the ball into the net instead.

The experiment is unprecedented but builds on links forged through the Globe's last spectacular attempt to link nations through the words of the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon.

But Wes's untermensch life is turned around when Angelina Jolie pops up out of nowhere in a drugstore, saves Wes from a mysterious, spectacular attempt on his life, and shoves the gibbering soon-to-be-ex-nerd into her flashy automobile for a crash-bang chase along the city freeway, exchanging fire with the gunman.

He embodied all the main religious impulses in America, intellectual and emotional, and the most spectacular attempts to reconcile them with each other.

Kobayashi made two spectacular attempts to pass before he succeeded after racing Button down the straight and slipping past when the new world champion made a small error in a corner.

In 2009, the discovery of a network of rightwing extremists in England with access to an arsenal of weapons prompted London Metropolitan police to warn that far-right militants might attempt a "spectacular" attack.

This latest, more spectacular suicide attempt was inspired by a movie about the Hindenburg, the hydrogen-powered German airship that burst over New Jersey in 1937.

In one of its more spectacular assassination attempts, the group tried to gun down the swaggering president of the Federation of State Workers, Wilson Borja, who had been encouraging talks.

But the optimistic tone of the report was tempered by assessments from senior officials in Kabul and Washington that the Taliban and other insurgent groups were expected to attempt spectacular counterattacks, perhaps in the near future.

Twice, he attempted spectacular one-handed windmill dunks over Hawks center Dikembe Mutombo, and though neither went down, Sprewell said that type of aggressiveness was a good sign.

9.28pm GMT 3 mins Zusi's corner is headed clear by Findley and an attempted spectacular shot by Rosell goes nowhere.