Sentence examples for stopped attempting from inspiring English sources

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.

The officer added: "The coalition had a turkey shoot, we're trying to hunt the wolf in the forest".The colonel's forces have also stopped attempting to move their heavy weapons across the desert.

After her failure in 2001 to summit K2 (in the Karakorams; 28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), the world's second highest peak, she stopped attempting 8,000-metre 8,000-metreor a timountainsncentrated on other notable peaks.

In my own case, I have long since stopped attempting to put stuff like Big Black on the living room stereo, because I know perfectly well that it will last a maximum of 15 seconds before my girlfriend turns it off.

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".

She stumbles and stops, attempting to regain her balance, and continues to walk forward.

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.