Sentence examples for way of attempting from inspiring English sources

The drugs and the alcohol, then, were perhaps a way of attempting to deal with the pressure of living a life in the constant public gaze.

For Fukase, the camera may have been a way of attempting to keep control of Yoko, as well as the world around him.

The more I read, the more convinced I became that Foos's stilted metaphysics were his way of attempting to elevate his disturbing pastime into something of value.

I suppose reinforcing some formative positive experiences over and over is one way of attempting to manipulate that subconscious selection process?

"We saw the G.I. Bill as a way of attempting to deal with veterans' reacclimation issues in a more comprehensive way.

While seemingly mindless, this simple behaviour is our body's neat way of attempting to protect us from damage to our skin from objects in the environment or nasty insects and parasites.

He issued a special decree sacking a first-deputy prime minister, Anatoly Chubais, whom he had pledged publicly a month before to keep in the government until at least 2000.By way of attempted explanation Mr Yeltsin said that the changes were needed "to give economic reform more energy and efficiency".

Last summer, "Treasury considered asset sales; imposing across-the-board payment reductions; various ways of attempting to prioritize payments; and various ways of delaying payments," a department report said.

"Treasury considered asset sales; imposing across-the-board payment reductions; various ways of attempting to prioritize payments; and various ways of delaying payments," the report said.

However, views of the negative effects of interest groups and ways of attempting to deal with them are different in democracies and authoritarian systems.

Still, it is worth considering the possible ways of attempting to justify skeptical arguments of a more limited sort by arguing that intuitions of some sort (which does not include epistemic intuitions or at least the epistemic intuitions of the sort needed to justify the premises) are unreliable.