Sentence examples for stop attempting from inspiring English sources

He would stop attempting to make brisk order out of human affairs.

Valery Gontareva, head of the National Bank of Ukraine, said he would stop attempting to prop up the currency, telling reporters in Kiev to "get used to market volatility".

Lipsius adopted a typically Stoic approach to the passions and "affects" [adfectus], identifying them as false opinions that we "must never stop attempting to conquer" (On Constancy 1.2).

I suggest for the sake of your reputation on-line, YOU GET YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT TOGETHER, and stop attempting to shove your posts into other people's feeds.

One of Israel's two chief rabbis, Yitzhak Yosef, urged Israelis to stop attempting to enter parts of Jerusalem's main holy site, the al-Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount complex, in order to avoid increased tension.

So, "enveloped by the mist and clouds of opinion" (De constantia I.2), we must never stop attempting to conquer our passions and emotions (adfectus) — desire, joy, fear and pain (cupiditas, gaudium, metus and dolor) — and our false opinions by means of reason.

The police had erected barriers to separate the gas lines from passing traffic, and they occasionally intervened to stop attempted line cutters and prevent fistfights.

As Bourdais exited the pit-lane in seventh place on lap 51, Massa, who was eighth, but yet to make his final pit stop, attempted to pass him and the two cars collided at the first corner.

He was a "joiner," a "born leader"; she was not, and stopped attempting to be.

I've long since stopped attempting to be deep or interesting, because there's simply no point to it.

But he never went down, never wobbled, never stopped throwing back, never stopped attempting to block punches, never sounded incoherent in his corner, never asked to stop.