Sentence examples for stop an attempt from inspiring English sources

Their first assignment is a sci-fi classic: stop an attempt to take over their city with an army of rats.

It released for action an undisclosed number of troops that since last April have been held in special areas away from the cities ready to stop an attempt by Rightist extremists to take over the territory.

Others die when they refuse to leave their property: last year, a farmer in the southern city of Changsha who would not yield was run over by a steamroller, and last month, a 4-year-old girl in Fujian Province was struck and killed by a bulldozer while her family tried to stop an attempt to take their land.

Hnilicka had lost sight of the puck after stopping an attempt by Bret Hedican from a sharp angle.

"One call one day may be the one that stops an attempt to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge".

The police stopped an attempt by relatives to circulate a petition for his release (more than 100 people signed it before the police seized it, she says).

Germany received most of the blame for stopping an attempt to fuse BAE of Britain with European Aeronautic Defense & Space, or EADS.

Martin Brodeur stopped an attempt by Ales Kotalik with a poke-check to start the shootout, then denied Tim Connolly and Thomas Vanek to seal the victory.

Two years ago, the judges stopped an attempt to hold a referendum on an amendment to the state constitution to block implementation of the president's health care reforms, saying that the wording was confusing.

When the relevant fluid deficit threshold has been reached and the procedure stopped, an attempt at estimating the intravascular component of the fluid loss can be made.

Madoc returns to his original home, and there he stops an attempt to remove the body of Gwynned from a grave on holy ground.