Sentence examples for tried to launch from inspiring English sources

He tried to launch coups in Yemen and Benin and fought for secession in Biafra.

So far, the Canadian startup hasn't tried to launch its business in the United States.

He said the officials investigating them had tried "to launch a coup".

In 1989, ABC tried to launch Angels '89, but it never got off the ground.

Imagine the potential carnage if Bea tried to launch a ship.

To cope with that the new prime minister, Zhu Rongji, has tried to launch a housing and investment boom.

A breakaway section tried to launch a flash occupation of another area, Tsim Sha Tsui, but were dispersed by police.

President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, says his former vice-president, Riek Machar, a Nuer, tried to launch a coup.

The theory is that if one went mad and tried to launch a nuclear attack, the other could restrain him.

Perry suffered some kind of spell onstage when he tried to launch an attack on Romney for being a flip-flopper.

The FBI apparently put the Shabab high on its list of outfits that might have tried to launch an attack during Barack Obama's inauguration.