Sentence examples for time an attempt from inspiring English sources

He talked about his new television series, "Street Time," an attempt by Showtime to out-H.B.O.

Far from being over-luxurious, it was in its time an attempt to combine good living with economy.

During my visit, Kramer was absorbed in one of his incessant studies — this time, an attempt to replicate the legendary achievements of Frank J. Richtig.

It's the first time an attempt has been made to single out these revolutionary developments of the last twenty years of his life.

Their bodies were passed to the anatomists after another law change in 1832, this time an attempt to stop the gruesome trade in digging up graveyards.

In such cases, if there is time, an attempt is made to warn the villagers, either by airborne loudspeakers or by leaflets dropped on the village.

Because cues are thought to fluctuate with time, an attempted retrieval at a more distant point is less likely to overlap with those present during encoding.

This movement was a sign of the times, an attempt by computer cognoscenti to empower the masses by giving ordinary individuals access to a public computer network.

Describing the exploits of Gaitonde and his determined pursuer, Sartaj Singh, a Bombay cop, Chandra's intensely ambitious nine-hundred-page work seems, at times, an attempt to make amends for the ignorance of Englishwallahs.

He used the word "positive" five times – an attempt to cast off the image the government has painted of him as a person who says no to everything it does.

This was scarcely the first time that an attempt to control the Mississippi had failed.