Sentence examples for was an attempt to erect from inspiring English sources

As soon as protests started... state media showed staged footage of arms being found in a mosque in Dara'a, the southern city where protests first broke out, and warned that a sit-in in Homs... was an attempt to erect a mini-caliphate.

Luigi Gambardella, ETNO's chairman, says operators cannot continue to invest in broadband infrastructure without a fairer share of the revenues it generates.Advocates of network neutrality worry that this is an attempt to erect tollbooths on the internet.

But when she's not looking at him, he studies her with a mix of hunger and distress, and you realize that his outburst is an attempt to erect barriers.

They see all this as an attempt to erect trade barriers and raise prices by reclaiming words that have long since passed into general use.

An attempt to erect a statue in Kennett Square in his honor was blocked due to his support of segregation in baseball.

In the latter half of the 9th century there was an attempt to revive royal power at the much diminished city of Tikal, as evidenced by a stela erected in the Great Plaza by Jasaw Chan K'awiil II in 869.

This paper is an attempt to contribute towards addressing the special and visual implications of fending that result from fences erected around properties.

One is an attempt to study dreaming.

"There is an attempt to discredit them.

It's an absurd yet familiar attempt to erect a cultural cordon sanitaire around a terrible event.

This essay is an account of the attempt to erect a massive allegorical monument to George III in central London.