Sentence examples for was to attempt from inspiring English sources
The idea was to attempt a remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.
The best option left was to attempt an audacious river landing.
But Brown said the plan was to attempt to land in West Papua regardless.
Unquestionably the most embarrassing thing I did at university was to attempt a world record for sitting on the lavatory.
His first act in Liege was to attempt an audacious back heel on the edge of his own penalty area.
It was, to attempt an impossible concision, an era in which democratisation was promoted and deference destroyed.
Her response to this terrifying uncertainty was to attempt to write a new kind of politics into being.
And if al-Assad was to attempt to stop all this, could he, I asked Nadim Houry.
Mr. Stern said the next step was to attempt to reach a compromise among officials, residents, historical groups and descendants.
The choice was to attempt a makable field goal to try to force a second overtime or to go for it.
It took me twenty years of my fifty-year marriage to discover how unwise it was to attempt to remake my wife.
