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Attempt

Attempt | Attempted | Attempts | Attempting

Attempt meaning

To try. | To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt. | To try to win, subdue, or overcome.

Example sentences (20)

Karim Khan decided to approach Palestinians in an attempt to remind them of his pedigree, during his campaign, in an attempt to assure them that he would act on principle when elected.

North Korean state media earlier reported this week that the country's second attempt to launch a spy satellite had failed, adding that in October, a third attempt will be made.

Rarely does the series attempt to rewrite history, though a change here and there, each has a purpose, which is as close to accuracy as can be expected from a series that doesn't attempt to be a documentary.

Smith earlier this month asked the US Supreme Court to bypass the lower appeals court and immediately decide the issue, in an attempt to stave off Trump´s attempt at delay.

The process has now gone through three attempts to award the licenses for integrated facilities, and the most recent attempt is almost as big of a mess as the first disallowed attempt.

Those who attempt to teach that enslaved people benefited from slavery, those who insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, who try to divide our nation with unnecessary debates.

After media personality Afua Asantewaa Aduonum’s sing-a-thon world record attempt officially ended a few days ago, another Ghanaian has started an attempt to break another Guinness World Record.

Cllr John Parrott (Lib Dem, Kenn Valley) said he was ‘appalled’ at the county council’s attempt to have the proposal called in for scrutiny by the secretary of state which, he said, was an attempt to ‘circumvent the democratic planning process’.

Concurrent with the attempt to delegitimize the case that there was a rash of sexual abuse and rape is an attempt to absolve Hamas of any wrongdoing.

However, after my first attempt at NEET was not worthwhile, I started paying attention again to all the shortcomings in my next attempt.

In a Hail Mary attempt to save the industry, studios began to take bigger risks in an attempt to find a new audience.

It states that government has the rights over all artefacts in Grenada and any attempt to resist such rights or attempt at removing such artefacts are in violation of the law and subject to a $10,000 fine.

On Sept. 15, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was accused of an assassination attempt on Trump at a golf course in Florida, but it was stopped by the Secret Service, making it the second assassination attempt on the former president in months.

Perhaps my journey wasn’t just an attempt to escape, but a desperate attempt to fix what remains of me, to save what could be saved; my last chance to build a new life away from the sounds of war.

Rhu Amateurs will make a second attempt to play their Scottish Amateur Cup fourth round tie at home to Easterhouse FA this Saturday, January 13, after their first attempt last weekend fell victim to the frozen temperatures.

Rohit’s first attempt in playing an aggressive shot caused his downfall – in a bid to whip off Cummins through the leg-side, he got a leading edge and was caught by gully on second attempt to be out for nine off 40 balls.

The British host concluded that “there is a shocking double standard, there is a shocking attempt to diminish and reduce the impact of what happened on Sunday” as well as the first assassination attempt.

While the SNP group’s amendments were accepted, Councillor McCluskey dismissed their attempt to take out mention of the task force, saying it was an attempt to ‘spare the blushes’ of the SNP and the Scottish Government.

His yards per attempt this season is up at 9.8, compared to 7.8 last season, while predictably his rushing yards per attempt is down from a ludicrous 6.9 to 4.3.

It could be seen as an attempt to prepare for parliamentary elections or an attempt to change the governing coalition in the Rada.