Sentence examples for wide-ranging attempts from inspiring English sources

Despite wide-ranging attempts by the West and Israel to delay or sabotage the nuclear programme, Iran has installed around 9,000 new centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow in less than two years, more than doubling its previous enrichment capacity.

It was Spencer's wide-ranging attempts to apply the concept of organic evolution to society, rather than Darwin's more cautious and narrow theories of biological change, that caught fire in the competitive, by-your-own bootstraps atmosphere of post-Civil War America.

However, this does indicate that Apple is aware of the wide-ranging attempts at rank manipulation going on, and is starting to take steps to prevent it.

However, this does indicate that Apple is aware of the wide-ranging attempts at rank manipulation going on, and is starting to take steps to prevent it.

Friday's ruling is the latest in a series of court decisions that have gone against wide-ranging attempts by Republicans to change voting laws in ways that tend to suppress Democratic votes.

Causing the resignation of the minister, Sanan Kachornprasart, is the most effective action by the National Countercorruption Commission, which was formed in 1997 in a wide-ranging attempt to reform politics.

Sartre's own What Is Literature? (1947) is typical in its wide-ranging attempt to prescribe the literary intellectual's ideal relation to the development of his society and to literature as a manifestation of human freedom.

Xi's second, and related, campaign has been a wide-ranging attempt to battle corruption, to bring down both the "tigers" and the "flies" – the high-ranking and lower-level officials whose actions have undercut the party's popularity.

He returned to these themes again a decade later in Captain Swing, a detailed study of rural protest in early 19th-century England co-authored with George Rudé, and Bandits, a more wide-ranging attempt at synthesis.

The MP abstained in last autumn's contentious vote on allowing British military action in Syria, insisting a more wide-ranging attempt at a solution to the conflict was needed.

Lucas's speech was a wide-ranging attempt to position the Greens as a party of growing power – its first council, first MP, a 40% rise in membership, all in the last two to three years – while ridiculing the main parties as either nasty (Conservative), craven (LibDems) or hopelessly compromised by past associations with big business (Labour, on PFI and the NHS).