"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rather, they appear to demand a relatively straightforward attempt at a political reading of the situation rather than the citing of some supposed mental or cultural condition.
- The chapters that follow were our first straightforward attempt to show how apemen might be trained, with patience, to improve their way of life.
- Rather, it is a straightforward attempt to assure quality control and accountability.
- Primitive catapults were essentially "the product of relatively straightforward attempts to increase the range and penetrating power of missiles by strengthening the bow which propelled them".
- By contrast, the pursuit of Britoil is seen as a straightforward attempt to acquire oil assets.
- Mr Smith saw the move to ensure the institution's senior management were elected and accountable as a straightforward wrecking attempt.
- A pretty straightforward attempt to reach the out-of-pocket swing-state voters whom Biden needs to bring on board.
- More straightforward attempts to graft order onto the world since 1945 strike him as inadequate.
- But it was still a straightforward attempt to kill me.
- Not a torture killing like Gretl's; nothing weird about it; just a straightforward attempt at murder!
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