Sentence examples for widespread attempts from inspiring English sources

If there is any theme in the widespread attempts to do so, it's that the Paterno's legacy is complicated.

This judgment must have taken into account previous radon studies, carried out amid widespread attempts to find a reliable earthquake predictor.

No existing work can be certainly attributed to him, and, although his influence must have been widespread, attempts to identify copies of his works remain conjectural.

Abortion advocates see it as a particularly egregious part of widespread attempts by anti-abortionists to establish fetal rights in any area of law they can.

The Swiss bank UBS has been fined £940m (1.4bn Swiss francs, US$1.53bn) by global regulators for "extensive and widespread" attempts to manipulate key benchmark interest rates known as Libor for five years.

Two of the world's biggest technology companies, Microsoft and Yahoo, expressed deep concern on Friday about widespread attempts by the US and UK intelligence services to circumvent the online security systems that protect the privacy of millions of people online.

Not until after World War I was there any widespread attempt to admonish doping in sports, much less designate it as cheating.

There has also been a widespread attempt to record oral memories of Partition before the dwindling generation that experienced it takes its memories to the grave.

"Following widespread attempted manipulation of Libor, firms should ensure that traders are not able to act in this way in the future," the FCA's chief executive, Martin Wheatley, said.

The "wanted" message sent Monday appeared to be the first widespread attempt to transform the citizens of a major American city into a vigilant and nearly omnipresent eye for the authorities.

As part of a widespread attempt to rein in the worst of the compensation practices that contributed to the crisis, Congress imposed a raft of new restrictions and rules governing pay at the banks as long as they still owed money borrowed under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp).