Meanings of fated attempt in English

Buckles had also overseen the ill- fated attempt to take over Danish rival ISS the previous year.

He had the same task during the party's ill- fated attempt to hold Glasgow East in July.

Two hundred years ago next week the Battle of Waterloo took place here, as Napoleon made a last, ill- fated attempt to conquer Europe.

J.C. Penney has been on the rebound this year after reversing an ill- fated attempt to move upmarket under former Chief Executive Ron Johnson.

Ofcom was asked to produce the recommendations after delivering a public interest report into News Corporation's ill- fated attempt to takeover BSkyB in December 2010.

The proposal has revived memories of Mrs Clinton's ill- fated attempt to mastermind the reform of the country's health-care policy during President Clinton's first term.

The session in The Fenman bar had been particularly lively, culminating in Garry's ill- fated attempt to dance a Highland reel in anticipation of New Year.

Amelia Earhart would have been 115 today had she lived through her ill- fated attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937.

Volkswagen's unusual structure harks back to the ill- fated attempt by sports-car maker Porsche in 2008-2009 to acquire the much-bigger automaker.

As Georgian leader in 1993, Shevardnadze presided over an ill- fated attempt to retake control of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian province on the Black Sea coast.

The show was yet another ill- fated attempt to go head to head with Carson, and lasted from 1967 to 1969.

White wrote a book, The Goshawk, about his own ill- fated attempts to train such a bird.

Photograph: PA The demise of punk, a few ill- fated attempts to manage bands, plus a marriage that fell apart, all took their toll.

At least 136 people died at the wall between 1961 and 1989, most of them in ill- fated attempts to cross it.

The Nimrod Expedition of 1908-1909, the first of Shackleton's ill- fated attempts to reach the South Pole, got further south than anyone had ever been before.