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attempt sentence examples

  • Attempting suicide, a new study suggests.
  • Resists all attempts to short circuit recitation of irrelevant facts.
  • Attempt at suicide probably was letting them win too.
  • Several desperate attempts at repair eventually led to the whole thing being removed.
  • This latter assassination attempt is graphically described in nancy, lady enniskillen's florence court, pp.
  • Attempts to explain the drama?
  • Many of them died in that failed attempt to save those trapped at the top.
  • It was an unsuccessful attempt to ensure that we all got today off.
  • There have been numerous suicide attempts in the detention camp.
  • Attempting to resolve combat will be mediation.
  • I abandoned attempts to follow any description precisely and aimed for a beckoning crack above, which had featured somewhere in the description.
  • After the two failed attempts sarah jumped in the pool and towed the girl to the side.
  • A sunset clause is a last-ditch attempt to put at least some protection or roadblock in place.
  • Attempted to persuade the labor party to adopt the policy of government funded welfare centers to provide free birth-control advice.
  • Why was there a deliberate attempt to conceal this?
  • Two athletes were killed in the olympic village, the other nine were massacred in a botched rescue attempt by the west german police.
  • In the 1990s, on gigante's initiative, an abortive attempt was made to reopen the old 18th-century excavations.
  • Firewalls stop intrusion attempts and prevent many threats getting through.
  • Despite repeated attempts to contact, photograph and interview the artist, he remained elusive.
  • The escape attempt vera is expecting fails to take place.

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