Sentence examples for violent attempt from inspiring English sources

(Some of the men speculated that there had been a violent attempt to break out).

Argentina's previous president, Eduardo Duhalde, never recovered politically after police fatally shot two young men taking part in a violent attempt to block a road in 2002.

It had almost died down when it was reignited by a violent attempt by police to disperse the final few hundred protesters.

Likewise, can't a distinction be drawn between assisting a democratic movement through unequivocal moral support for the local opposition, on the one hand, and a heavy handed, violent attempt to overthrow a despotic government and create a local opposition?

"Given my familial relationship with senior members of the Venezuelan government, I believed that we were potential targets for an extortionate scheme or other violent attempt at retribution against my family and country," Campo Flores said.

In another attack, in 2006, Hunt and his heavies "orchestrated a brazen and violent attempt to pervert the course of justice by … threats of violence" within a courthouse in central London.

They began pushing my companions in ever more violent attempts to floor them.

Violent attempts to destroy the state of Israel have brought nothing but destruction and death to Arab peoples.

Most Spanish Basques, and most Spaniards, had hoped the ceasefire meant violent attempts to create a separate Basque were over.

The last thing such patients need is aggressive treatment with toxic drugs, violent attempts at resuscitation or invasive surgery - yet many still receive it.

It's the subconscious conclusions my friends and colleagues reached about me, about my behaviour and about how my life would be after surviving a violent attempted rape.