Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Malaysian government expressed concern over the agreement and warned that , along with other ASEAN countries , it would oppose any attempts to establish a new US naval base in Singapore . |
| 2 | These are not necessarily forces for continuity but they may act as barriers to government attempts to impose a new line of policy . |
| 3 | The suppression of trade union and democratic rights by the military authorities is reflected in their attempt to impose a new trade union law in the absence of leaders , thus violating international conventions and agreements , including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , to which Sudan is a signatory . |
| 4 | At the heart of the Dearing Report 's proposals for a new system for setting accounting standards is an attempt to create a new alliance between accountancy and the law to improve the quality of financial reporting . |
| 5 | The second approach was the attempt to create a new class of ‘ master farmer ’ . |
| 6 | For example , in his attempt to lead a new life , he attributes any success he may have had in conquering lust , anger or pride to God 's grace , a very specifically Christian idea ; and this is a full fifteen months before his conversion to Christianity . |
| 7 | Another such project was initiated by Adorno 's contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre , whose attempt to define a new form of Hegelian Marxism via a reworked philosophy of consciousness in many ways more closely resembled that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 8 | The business of the new configuration was different : art ‘ transferred to the praxis of life ’ — not however ‘ to integrate art into this praxis ’ but ‘ the attempt to organise a new life praxis from a basis in art ’ ( cited p. 54 ) . |
| 9 | Keane , rated in the £5m bracket , is out of contract at the end of next season and has already rebuffed Brian Clough 's first attempt to negotiate a new deal . |
| 10 | In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago . |
| 11 | The EPA claims that its study was hampered by pressure of time in meeting an August 1 deadline set by a federal court decree , imposed after the American Lung Association sued the EPA last October in an attempt to force a new review . |
| 12 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 13 | This Report highlights some of the changes that trade unions have already experienced over the recent years in attempts to explore a new style of trade unionism that is in tune with the needs of working people . |
| 14 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 15 | Since the Norwegian constitution did not allow the early dissolution of parliament , attempts to form a new government had quickly been reduced to two options , a Conservative or a Labour minority administration . |
| 16 | A series of attempts to form a new coalition government had failed , and on 5 May President Coty sent a message to de Gaulle , asking whether he would be willing to enter into negotiations to form a government . |
| 17 | When the committee met Hopkins resisted the Section 's attempts to get a new definition of full employment of 2 ½%; unemployed , preferring to stick to Beveridge 's 8 ½%; dge . |
| 18 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 19 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |