Sentence examples for zealous attempt from inspiring English sources

Thousands of books made from the bark of trees and bearing the wisdom of Mayan culture went up in smoke on a single day in 1562 in Mexico, the victims of a Spanish friar's zealous attempt to "cleanse" the natives of "devilish" thoughts.

The two men are considered notorious in voting-rights circles for their zealous attempts to establish the existence of non-existent voter fraud and throw people off the voter roles – a practice known to disproportionately affect minority and elderly voters who tend to vote Democratic.

In our initial experiments some episomal plasmids suffered large deletions that included all or part of the reporter cassette, which we found was due to over zealous attempts to remove episomes that lack the bar code by digestion with BstZ17I, which is unique to this region.

Women who love football love it for its physicality; its bone-crunching tackles, the over-zealous attempt at a spoil that quickly turns into melee as tempers fray.

During the war, Mrs. Cram a zealous pacifism attempted to lease auditorium for meetings, hall managers refused to lease a place for meetings promoting peace.

It's another case of a zealous tail attempting to wag the dog.

The problem was one of over-zealous organizers attempting, in one night, to make up for a week of almost no snow.

Although other languages are allowed in the private domain, there are regular attempts by zealous mayors to extend the language laws to other spheres of life.

In "The Legend of the Chicken Driver," about a poultry trucker who breaks the rules, and "The Legend of the Zealous Activist," about an apparatchik's attempt to corral the illiterate residents of a farming community and force them to learn to read, the comedy is muted.

The SEC is obviously embarrassed by its Mr. Magoo oversight of the Madoff ponzi and is now attempting to be overly zealous in its enforcement.

Lib Dems also tinker with polls Further to my story last week which revealed that an over-zealous Tory staffer was attempting to influence an online poll on David Cameron, it emerges that the Liberal Democrats have been doing a little tinkering of their own.