determined attempt

A more determined attempt was made seven years later from China.

I made a very determined attempt, but not a chance.

As a very young man he had several unhappy love affairs and made more or less determined attempts to take his life.

This position remained in British hands for the rest of the battle, despite determined attempts to take it back.

There could be few survivors from a determined attempt to cut out the Jocasta.

He attacked innocent young people in a determined attempt to extinguish hope.

She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.

William wanted to make love to me; it wasn't a very determined attempt, friendly rather than passionate.

It is also a system, they say, that resists even the most determined attempts to change it.

We must support the Commissioner in his determined attempts to protest and, if necessary, retaliate - but carefully.

Reportedly two determined attempts are made to rush open the gate, but are unsuccessful.

There had been a determined attempt to root out abuses among the clergy and to raise their intellectual calibre.

Nations like Libya that have made determined attempts to obtain atomic munitions have not even come close.

The dollar's tumble persisted despite determined attempts by the Bank of Japan to prop it up.

Three powerful governments, Israel, Iraq, and Iran, had all made determined attempts to assassinate him.

In the sixteenth century the Crown made a determined attempt to suppress the Irish fleets with its own ships.

"We cannot control the evolution of such things, but we can make a determined attempt at relaxing the inner ring of countries around us.

As elsewhere, there is a determined attempt in Britain to restore the economic model so comprehensively discredited in the crash of 2008.

This, then, is the legendary Trouser Titan, bulging forth in a determined attempt to split the barrier.

But she had nursed them, held them, studied their features... and her determined attempts at coldness hadn't worked.

Later in the same year Ibrahim made a determined attempt to bring Dan Tunku, to heel.

After thwarting a series of determined attempts to murder his friends by Irving, he saves his parents from a restaurant explosion that caused their disappearance.

Marsali kept a tight hold on Germaine's collar, preventing his determined attempts to follow them.

The 1942 German offensive codenamed Case Blue saw a determined attempt to seize the oil fields in a large scale advance into the area.

Guantanamo interrogators have uncovered a determined attempt by al-Qaeda to attack Western countries using chemical or nuclear weapons, according to the top-secret files.