Meanings of abortive effort in English

Before this, there had been an abortive effort to shoot in an asylum.

After an abortive effort he turned away with a grunt and left the room.

Immediately he left for the West, and commenced an abortive effort to break up the Union.

Another result of this abortive effort was the establishment of the notorious "Dead Line."

Thousands of Soviet soldiers had paid with their lives for this abortive effort which had also cost us very dear.

To the telephone company they represent absentmindedness, to us, the abortive effort of some silly dreamer trying to get London.

Here Valentine broke down at the end of a paragraph; and the gardener made an abortive effort to get back to the doorway.

A third time it made an abortive effort to spring, and looked round pitifully, whereupon Moses gave vent to an uncontrollable snort of suppressed laughter.

After an abortive effort in 1896, the winds being contrary, he started with two companions from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, on the 11th of July 1897.

History is able to record little or nothing of such abortive efforts.

Any fresh X-34 test program would likely mirror the abortive efforts a decade ago.

He preached with no striking originality, but with evident earnestness, mingled with abortive efforts at rhetoric.

With the last stanza the wild singer disappeared; and the sick woman, after several abortive efforts, rose painfully to her feet.

We shall see further on what persistent but abortive efforts were made in Congress once more to galvanize it into life.

Her findings follow nearly five years of investigation and abortive efforts by her Spanish predecessor, Joaquin Almunia, to strike deals with Google.

The abortive efforts of the previous session and the veto of President Grant of one of the bills referred to contributed to it.