Example sentences of "attempt to bring the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to bring the imam of Yemen into alliance was vetoed by India , but he played tribal politics better than the craftiest of sheikhs , cheaply keeping the peace with well-placed bribes . |
| 2 | The Canadian-American Challenge Cup series of international road races in the United States and Canada was introduced in 1966 in an attempt to bring the excitement of Grand Prix racing to the North American road circuits that had sprung up . |
| 3 | Coun Peter Jones ( Con ) said it was madness to use Labour candidate Alan Milburn in the attempt to bring the company to the town . |
| 4 | Napoleon III was well aware of the danger posed by prolonged disputes about the Spanish succession and in an attempt to bring the problem to a quick end , he proposed as a ‘ neutral ’ candidate the Portuguese Prince , Fernando , husband and former King-Consort of Queen Maria . |
| 5 | Their typical approach can be divided into two lines of attack : a challenge to the deductibility of payments to the tax haven , and/or an attempt to bring the haven 's profits within the tax net in the high-tax jurisdiction . |
| 6 | As one attempt to bring the opposition together , LAG are proposing to hold a coordinating meeting of all the groups involved . |
| 7 | Pérez de Cuéllar on March 7 , 1990 , presented Iran and Iraq with a new eight-point peace agenda in a fresh attempt to bring the Gulf war to an official end . |
| 8 | The New Economic Policy also has a more unusual aspect : the attempt to bring the coca-dollars into circulation . |
| 9 | But — to the government 's continued chagrin — striking tax workers marched through Paris yesterday , and at the Peugeot factories in eastern France the employment ministry has appointed an official conciliator in a last-ditch attempt to bring the unions and management to the negotiating table . |
| 10 | Wherever one goes , whatever statistical projection is used in an attempt to bring the future into focus , one is aware of a rising sea of people and their vehicles which defeats frontiers . |
| 11 | It was a simple attempt to bring the plane down , but one that required sound engineering knowledge . |
| 12 | Growing pressure both within the Diet and outside led the government to abandon its earlier attempt to bring the investigation to a close . |