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Example sentences for: attempts

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Also, eponymous terms allow almost anyone to display competence, even brilliance, at coining useful and appropriate-sounding new words--thereby encouraging further attempts to do so.
And the explanations the lexicographers proceed to provide for the names are explicit attempts to justify their inclusion.
Attempts at prohibition or limiting this activity have shown the proclivity of its members to simply move it underground to Washington hotels and Florida resorts in order to skirt responsibility for its appearance.
He calls Eastwood "one of the great ironists of the age" and a "postmodern" hero: "Clint's gift," he writes, forever on a first-name basis with his subject, "is to let us see the dark comedy in the American male's contorting, distorting attempts to achieve his masteries of the moment while at the same time not entirely discrediting the tradition that makes him bid that effort."
Instead, Stross spends most of his time talking about Microsoft's attempts to produce consumer-software CDs, which is only anecdotally interesting.