Example sentences of "attempt to bring the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The attempt to bring the moran system under administrative control was deemed a failure , and policy in Kenya shifted once again in the direction of abolition . |
| 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 | It was a simple attempt to bring the plane down , but one that required sound engineering knowledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thakin Nu made yet another attempt to bring the White Flag Communists back into the AFPFL . |
| 10 | What we do not see , except in isolated cases such as that found in Leeds LEA , is an attempt to bring the enabling qualities of these environments into the education system . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , given the clearly expressed strategic interests of the United States in the region it is probable that the latest Soviet ‘ neutralisation ’ proposal was not a serious attempt to bring the Western states to the negotiating table . |
| 13 | The New Economic Policy also has a more unusual aspect : the attempt to bring the coca-dollars into circulation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Another initiative , by Germany 's Social Democratic Party , failed in its attempt to bring the warring parties together in a " workshop " in Bonn in late January . |
| 16 | Growing pressure both within the Diet and outside led the government to abandon its earlier attempt to bring the investigation to a close . |
| 17 | Coun Peter Jones ( Con ) said it was madness to use Labour candidate Alan Milburn in the attempt to bring the company to the town . |