#attempt

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ↗

— Kofi Annan

#chart #course #decades #does #first

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#attempt #besides #body #class #define

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. ↗

— Paul Berg

#being #cells #cloned #embryonic #embryonic stem cells

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#attempt #end #enterprises #great #level

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. ↗

— Richard Branson

#attempt #balloons #finding #fly #life

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. ↗

— James Buchanan

#avoid #been #days #dispute #ever

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#after #attempt #enough #generation #impossible

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#am #attempts #formed #fortune #greater