"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "The human animal responds to the illusion of scarcity with frenetic attempts to be first on line, whether for food, housing, concert tickets or admission to Harvard," Ms. Vail continued.
- The Conservative side had split into two factions, the Historical and National, in a frenetic attempt to bring order to the country.
- As for the fact that there have been so many announcements in such a short time, Ms. Stewart said this was not a "frenetic" attempt to jump-start the stock price, which closed at $20.65 yesterday.
- First came Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge," a lush and frenetic attempt to resuscitate the movie musical by mixing contemporary songs with a Belle Époque setting.
- There was something grotesquely amusing in that; the frenetic attempt to sell papers while the world died.
- The possibility of a second war in Croatia after the one that erupted when Zagreb seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991 has led to frenetic attempts to ease tensions.
- Their graceful and disciplined schooling strategies of uniform spacing and polarity degrade into frenetic attempts by each fish to save itself.
- The twin engines on Santoro's boat coughed and sputtered, flooded by the smuggler's frenetic attempts to gun them.
- Often, in the wake of the rationalization and the frenetic attempts to increase productivity of recent years, labour has been casualized in various ways.
- "My Big Fat Independent Movie" is a frenetic attempt to spoof every major art-house film of the last decade.
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