Sentence examples for unfortunate effort from inspiring English sources

In an unfortunate effort at education, the performance was encumbered with a part for the composer as narrator.

Forget Fahad Khalfan, forget Frank Mill, forget Geoff Hurst's decent, unfortunate effort in the 1966 final - Saturday saw the miss that puts all misses to shame.

We have tried on multiple occasions to address Ms Burguieres' concerns, but these actions make it clear to us that this is just an unfortunate effort to extract more money and more publicity.

Who could forget German diver Stephan Feck and his unfortunate effort in the diving, the moment Cuba's Lazaro Borges' pole snapped in the men's pole vault and Germany's Robert Harting showing some unique skills as he celebrated gold in the discus.

In an unusually sharp response issued later Monday, the university said the protest letter was "an unfortunate effort to manufacture controversy and score political points at the expense" of CUA and it said CUA would not reconsider the Koch donation.

Update: Gunn has issued a statement that reflects and expands on his earlier Twitter apology, My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be provocative.

If James Graham's unfortunate late effort had been given by the (English) video refs, perhaps we would have been rejoicing on the way back with a series won.

And Daugherty has attempted to ape her style, an unfortunate, failed effort.

"It's unfortunate with the effort we got out of everybody else.

He adds: "Even more unfortunate is the effort of some in positions of power and responsibility to indict dedicated scientists as 'climate criminals'.

For Roosevelt, the '20s were largely a "season in the wilderness": he battled polio as a private citizen and presided over the unfortunate American Construction Council, an effort to get the construction industry to regulate itself voluntarily.