Sentence examples for tried to attach a from inspiring English sources

They tried to attach a line to one of the demonstrators' boats to tow it in.

Einar and Elvar, in the river now, tried to attach a line to the rear of the car to pull it out.

The article also misspelled the given name of the United States senator from California who tried to attach a guest worker program to an Iraq spending bill.

Experience has taught Mr. Pepe to tell drivers to turn off their engines before he tried to attach a tow hook.

In my younger daughter's room, I tried to attach a so-called floating shelf (Lack, from Ikea, $15), which has no diagonal support and must therefore be anchored to a stud.

Then, last month, before the survey was finished and for reasons still unclear, the Democrats abruptly tried to attach a repeal of the law to the defence appropriations bill, a stratagem the Republicans defeated in a filibuster.All this leaves Mr Obama's policy in a mess.

It was only a month ago that Republicans tried to attach an amendment to the annual defense appropriations bill that would have prevented the Department of Veterans Affairs from sharing names of veterans who have been deemed mentally incompetent with the FBI for the purpose of factoring them into background checks on firearms acquisitions.

tried to attach an amendment to the defense bill that would have cut off funding for the war unless Congress passed a new AUMF by next March.

In that case, try to attach a campus visit to a vacation, experts say.

This spring, for instance, Republicans could try to attach a demand for unspecified, across-the-board cuts to must-pass legislation to raise the nation's debt limit.

It's a friendly assault; he's trying to attach a transmitter to the dugong so that its migration patterns can be tracked.