Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 2 | Fairness to his creditors demands that he should not be able to deplete his assets in this way in a deliberate attempt to put them beyond the reach of his creditors . |
| 3 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 4 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 5 | Those states with the available resources , space and population at their disposal will sooner or later attempt to develop them to the point which enables them — to use the kind of phrase often employed publicly in this context — to ‘ play a part in world balance ’ Or ‘ to take a seat in world councils ’ . |
| 6 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 7 | Any attempt to introduce them into the discourse is immediately blocked by the slogan posing as question — ‘ but is it philosophy ? ’ |
| 8 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 9 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |