Sentence examples for them an attempt from inspiring English sources

Verizon flatly rejected the charges, calling them an attempt to shift the blame for AT&T's poor long-distance performance.

The US has dismissed the claims as laughable and called them an attempt to distract attention from Venezuela's deepening economic crisis.

(Jhalajit has publicly denied Herojit's allegations, and he declined to be interviewed for this story. When we spoke to Joykumar, he rubbished Herojit's claims, calling them an attempt to shift the blame).

In Hard Times, when Gradgrind is fixing up for Louisa to marry the middle-aged Mr Bounderby, she looks out at the industrial landscape – "see those chimneys father, at night fire comes out of them" – an attempt to imply the very obvious image of sexuality.

[When the city announced rules in early May for convention week protests, police union officials and civil libertarians called them an attempt to silence dissent.] Mr. O'Connor said Democrats were optimistic that the labor troubles would be resolved before the opening gavel on July 26.

And they did, for it was by his Carlos Martínez alias that both the British and French police had marked him as the chief suspect for various outrages, among them an attempt to murder in his own bathroom Edward Sieff, former Marks & Spencer chairman and vice-president of Britain's Zionist Federation.

Because my bill payments never appeared to process — at least on the front-end — I deleted them and then re-added them in an attempt to get them to go through, as advised.

This led me to photograph them in an attempt to arrest them at their prime.

A missionary priest goes to live among them in an attempt to convert them, but occasionally his faith wavers, and he eats one or two.

"I went to collect a swarm once and somebody had thrown bleach all over them in an attempt to kill them and then used wasp spray," she recalls.

Trump's Supreme Court nominee has denied the allegations, calling them an attempted "smear, plain and simple".