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Example sentences for: attempt

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In an attempt to stem the loss, ugly jetties were built, and a network of concrete blocks was planted into the sea.
It said the four-hour delay before the nation was told the outcome of the coup attempt may have been caused by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's refusal to resign as the army looked for a constitutional way to remove him.
No attempt has been made to represent the kinetics of signaling events in Figure 4. Boolean formalism can incorporate kinetic information through use of gating delays.
It is surrounded by Echo Wall, into which visitors attempt to whisper messages that can be heard by friends at distant points along the wall.
Ideally, content validity studies attempt to compare a test with a reference standard of the same phenomenon as that which is being palpated, i.e., palpable abnormalities in structure, motion and soft tissue.