Sentence examples for understandable attempts from inspiring English sources

The Stravinsky family, like the name, is Polish, a fact which needs to be stressed in view of recent and perfectly understandable attempts by Kiev scholars to claim Stravinsky as a Ukrainian of Cossack lineage.

Russell Shorto's depiction of rugged Spartan entrepreneurship amid the misery of modern-day Greece is an understandable attempt at journalistic balance.

He quickly added that the design, though flawed, was an understandable attempt to bring "open air and children running in sunshine" to the overcrowded Lower East Side.

What the independent counsel theorizes as President Clinton's pattern of obstruction of justice relative to Monica S. Lewinsky can also be seen as a sad but understandable attempt at preserving a measure of personal privacy.

But for North Korean fans, a test pattern would have been infinitely better viewing than the humiliating surplus of goals that the Portuguese were producing on a soggy Monday at Cape Town Stadium in an undiplomatic but understandable attempt to pad their goal differential and increase their chances of reaching the knockout round.

The Times' leader comment says the prince is "well-informed" and the letters were an "understandable attempt" to make a difference "on subjects close to his heart".

By applying the caregiving system model maternal actions can be understood as an understandable attempt to protect the child from harm.

By applying the caregiving system model which is a part of attachment theory (Bowlby) maternal actions can be understood as an understandable attempt to protect the child from harm.

Sad to say that the standard response was to link my illness and disability automatically to my depression – and my "understandable" suicide attempt.

While parents' concerns are understandable, any attempt to bring the problem back down to a nicely manageable pro or con sort of proposition is a Sisyphean task.

It was an understandable, if futile, attempt to minimize the ramifications of his decision.