Sentence examples for tried to launch a from inspiring English sources
He said the officials investigating them had tried "to launch a coup".
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.
He tried to launch an environmental NGO but officials turned down his request to register it (Wuxi already had one, they said, and that was enough).
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.
After Israel withdrew from Lebanon, the Hezbollah militia, on the other side, went on hating Israel and harassing the border -- but it never tried to launch an invasion.
Emboldened by Iraq's highest religious authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Abadi has tried to launch an anti-corruption drive designed to weed out the most guilty and introduce meaningful accountability processes across all levels of business and politics.
