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Example sentences for: attempted

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Virginia executed Paraguayan citizen Angel Francisco Breard for the murder (during an attempted rape) of an American woman.
Several laboratories have attempted to document the formation of 4-HNE protein adducts during oxidative stress by Western blot analysis.
Some commentators have attempted to dismiss that hypothesis on the grounds that discrimination is costly (because it entails a willingness to pay premium wages for white workers) and therefore unattractive to employers with an eye on the bottom line.
And Olivetti's successful takeover of Telecom Italia this year was made possible in part by the fact that Telecom Italia's attempted defense against the takeover involved a prospective merger with Deutsche Telekom, a merger that would have been unacceptable to the Italian government.
In the 1990s, the Clinton administration attempted to introduce a comprehensive system of funding universal health care.