1
Job and cost cuts are a belated attempt to address this problem.
2
Instead, her belated attempt at caution flew away on the wings of anger.
3
Well, I made a belated attempt to earn my young friend's good opinion.
4
It's a belated attempt to head off Trump-style anti-establishment revolts on the continent.
5
His weak and belated attempt to right Alma's wrong has killed her father.
6
Angel-A was seen as a belated attempt to rebrand himself as a proper auteur.
7
The desperate and belated attempt to fix the problem became a saga in itself.
8
I'm sorry. He nodded in a belated attempt at conciliation.
9
A belated attempt had, indeed, been made to retain Tobago.
10
This belated attempt was destined to be the last.
11
Derues, who had made a belated attempt to follow her husband's example by impersonating Mme.
12
In a belated attempt to re-assert himself, he said to Hardman: Don't forget the clock, Lieutenant.
13
His belated attempt to repair his fatal treachery only exposed the essential selfishness of his character.
14
Then, in a belated attempt to soften it, he added, "If you don't mind."
15
I saw him raise one hand slightly, as if making a belated attempt to grab hold of me.
16
His hands were flung forwards towards Erick in a futile belated attempt to stop the lever clicking home.
