Sentence examples for sustained attempt from inspiring English sources

Or give up and make a serious and sustained attempt at redirecting my working life.

Out of the window went any sustained attempt to assess Motion's careful placing of Larkin in post-war English poetry.

She inspired Ann Veronica, but the scandal made relations impossible with the straitlaced Fabian Society, in which Wells had made his most sustained attempt to turn socialist principle into practice.

The one sustained attempt to evoke a sense of place -- a two-page sprint from Union Square through Greenwich Village to the Lower East Side -- could have been transcribed from the speech of a tour-bus conductor counting the days to retirement.

– forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s. 4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan, part of a sustained attempt by the British government in Westminster to ethnically cleanse the Highlands and eliminate Gaelic culture.

He both celebrated and despaired of them, and his work essentially represents an ongoing investigation into problematic relationships – between the conflicting sides of the self; men and women; races and societies; competing ideologies; nature and technology; high and low culture; language and meaning – and a sustained attempt to carry out this investigation in an original, meaningful way.

With it came more sustained attempts to de-politicise the attacks.

Mr. Armstrong said Mr. Tracy died despite immediate and sustained attempts by Virginia prison guards to intervene.

This book is about Ms. Brockes's sustained attempts to unearth them.

At P.S. 8, many teachers were wary after years of student attrition and few sustained attempts at improvement.

On a trip to Kenya recently, I spoke at the launch of the Code4Kenya initiative backed by government, the African Media Initiative, media companies, NGOs and the ICT sector as one of the first sustained attempts in Africa focused on making open data relevant to and used by citizens.