Sentence examples for troubled attempt from inspiring English sources

More recently, Steven Spielberg's "Munich" is a brave, if troubled, attempt to look at both sides of a fraught conflict.

Mr Apotheker also had to save Business ByDesign, SAP's troubled attempt to offer software as an online service.

Or did the film strike you as a troubled attempt to recapture the company's illustrious historical allure?

A thirty-two-year-old Chinese-American who grew up in Queens and Long Island, Loh joined the N.Y.G.A.S.P. production after the company made a troubled attempt to stage "The Mikado" last year.

The events in South Africa thickened the pall over already troubled attempts to cobble together an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire.

"In taking my freedom, I can from now on approach peace in eternity in the company of my wife who was killed by the prosecution case [a reference to his wife's sudden death during the original trial]." Papon's flight is a setback for France's troubled attempts to face its wartime past, in which 75,000 Jews were sent to die in Germany.

Lurking below the surface of the Gulf crisis, are rival, yet troubled, attempts by Qatar and its detractors to use sports to boost soft power and/or launder tarnished images of their autocracies.

That risk is hard to measure, in part because so much research has focused on clinical populations — people who sought help or acted out because they were troubled, had attempted suicide or professed suicidal tendencies.

The U.S. Energy Department said Friday that its long-troubled attempt to build a plant to process highly radioactive sludge at a former nuclear weapons site in central Washington state will cost an additional $4.5 billion, raising the project's price tag to $16.8 billion.

Margie is bright, sensitive and pretty but troubled (she has attempted suicide), and she believes there is a ghost in her family's house.

He becomes troubled as he attempts to extract information from the doppelgänger, which has Ilia's memories and feelings buried within.