"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Our attempt to be an intimate family has foundered!
- We started with committee structure those attempts have foundered on intransigence over the whole nature of a review process.
- That attempt, however, foundered in February on the deep animosities between the two men.
- But that attempt foundered in October when the group could not get the financing.
- Several other recent attempts by mutual banks to convert to public ownership have foundered.
- The effort failed and then other attempts also foundered.
- But the attempt to reunite the city has foundered on an ugly reality.
- Other attempts to cut costs by being more efficient have also foundered.
- Indeed, other attempts to forge integration have foundered on market realities.
- The first attempt to establish a "presidential government" had occurred in 1926-1927, but foundered for lack of political support.
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