Sentence examples for troubling attempt from inspiring English sources

Media groups will on Tuesday challenge what they describe as a "deeply troubling" attempt by the government to withhold evidence from the inquest into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

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

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

They include previously unknown details about the workings of the Pinochet regime, including the dictator's role in foreign assassinations and his troubled attempts to travel abroad as the legal net tightened around him in the early 1990's.

"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.

(The makers of Mitrasafe or their attorneys have not yet responded to my requests for comment). Anthony Roberts, an independent journalist on the dietary supplement beat, has chronicled this organization's troubled attempts to garner new dietary ingredient classification for their product.

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.

"It's going to cause him to lash out more rather than less as he starts to feel like the walls are closing in". Several of Trump's longtime friends and associates said he is doing what he always does in times of trouble: attempt to overwhelm with liveliness.

Consequently, I find very troubling the attempts of politicians in Virginia and Pennsylvania to require women to undergo ultrasound examinations prior to exercising their lawful federal right to have an abortion.

As in On the Run, against-the-grain ethnographers tell troubling stories and attempt to link those stories to larger social issues like the strained relations that exist between the police and African American men, or the sometimes violent acts that sorcerers enact against members of their own communities.

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.