"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After several attempts at a name were rejected a community meeting was held.
- She has no idea why he rejects her attempts to support him.
- He rejected the city's attempt to consider other issues like revenue.
- These cases rejected the state's attempt to determine the limits of federal power.
- The first attempt at passing the tax cuts was rejected by Congress in 1963.
- The first attempt had been rejected by voters in the 1959 referendum.
- He rejected attempts by the American economy to win itself a prominent position in this mission.
- And like them, he rejected attempts at grand abstract systems of explanation.
- A third attempt in August 2011 was again rejected with a vote of 613 against unionization to 367 for it.
- Each attempt to improve the commercial success of the Carnival spectacle was being rejected.
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