(v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
(v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
(v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.
(v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.
(v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.
(n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(5) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(6) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(7) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(8) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(9) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(10) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(11) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(12) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(13) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
(14) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(15) Attempts were made to prolong the survival of the grafts by the use of cytotosine arabinoside, methylprednisolone, heparin and azathioprine.
(16) An attempt was made to elucidate possible participation of low molecular weight nuclear RNA's (LMWN RNA's) in the transcription process.
(17) As total pancreatectomy markedly reduces the pancreatic hormone level, leading to a mortal hypoglycaemia, we attempted to maintain plasma glucose within the normal range by constant I.V.
(18) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
(19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(20) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
Larceny
Definition:
(n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Female offenders report most of their income as coming from drugs sales, shoplifting, and larceny.
(2) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(3) Aged 15, he was convicted of petty larceny at Wimbledon juvenile court, having stolen goods worth £2.
(4) Pulse oximetry was used to confirm higher hemoglobin oxygen saturation to establish the leukocyte larceny.
(5) Others were potentially more serious, a bomb threat in March 2003 in which an anonymous caller told the club’s receptionist: “there will be a bomb tonight that will blow” before hanging up the phone (the threat was unfounded); a drunk driver who rammed into barricades outside Mar-a-Lago in 1994 because “he disliked Donald Trump”, and 14 incidents of theft and larceny.
(6) The 32 people arrested will face charges that could include assault, larceny and burglary, he added.
(7) But, essentially, it persists by glorying in the fantastic, if basic, idea that a batch of old barrels, an outdoor paddling pool, a sand pit and some strategically arranged planks and ropes can successfully transport kids to a world of larceny on the high seas.
(8) There were "small incidents" with Roma accused of pilfering firewood or vegetables and other petty crime, but only 12 "petty larcenies" were reported to police during the first four months of 2011.
(9) Because this making off with our public property is nothing more than legalised larceny.
(10) Ceglia was arrested and charged with criminal fraud and grand larceny in 2009, after the wood pellet company he and his wife run failed to deliver $200,000 worth of orders to customers in four states.
(11) Only 72 sample members were arrested during the period, mostly for burglary or larceny (22 arrests), simple or aggravated assault (17 arrests), and minor offenses (40 arrests), including drunkenness, trespassing, and traffic violations.
(12) The fantastic scale of his subsequent larceny became apparent when American inquiries into a collapsed bank discovered that Obiang controlled $700m in deposits there alone.
(13) Evidence suggests that ostensibly serious offenses such as assault, larceny, and burglary charged to homeless persons tended to involve petty thievery, entry into vacant buildings, and other acts aimed at maintaining subsistence in the absence of housing.
(14) But three days later the new civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, took office: when more evidence emerged of undisclosed Mohammed bank accounts in Europe totalling $1bn, the new government decided to try and recover what it saw as the proceeds of grand larceny.
(15) The suspect, Robert J "Joe" Halderman, was arrested yesterday and indicted on one count of attempted first-degree grand larceny, punishable from five to 15 years upon conviction, Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau said.
(16) Bizarrely, Brown, the man whose light-touch regulation of the UK banking sector encouraged the greed, corruption and larceny that now characterise them, portrayed the SNP as a rich man's party.
(17) Recidivism rates aren’t parsed out by the type of drug used by various offenders, but I know from seeing almost 85% of my cellmates return to prison while I was still there that the recidivism rate for opiate addicts is very high, especially after totaling drug-related charges like possession and distribution with drug-complicated charges like burglary and larceny.
(18) The testimony of the colourful 70-year-old – nicknamed Mr 10% due to the cash he topsliced from every marketing deal for two decades – was given in secret to a New York judge in 2013 but only made public on Wednesday, and laid out in stark detail the scale of the larceny.
(19) However, it is inappropriate in many cases where non-violent confusional crimes, such as petty larceny, have been committed.
(20) Leukemic patients with extremely high white blood counts may exhibit the phenomenon of leukocyte larceny, in which white blood cells metabolize plasma oxygen in arterial blood gas samples (ABG) producing a spuriously low oxygen tension.