Sentences with phrase «attempted such a venture»

The brick and mortar bookstores may all owe their allegiance to a single body, the French Booksellers Association or SLF, but there is no unified website for all the booksellers, the reason being that the last time they attempted such a venture, it resulted in a huge financial loss.

Not exact matches

In what follows I will not attempt to answer his arguments in detail, still less to score points against him; the matters we are concerned with are too difficult and too crucial to admit of such treatment; I shall therefore merely try to indicate where and why I still venture to differ from him.

You expect any attempt by cinema to venture into the pomp and luxuriance of Louis XIV and the Palace of Versailles to be rife with excess and frilly posturing, but A Little Chaos dispels such fears.

As with such high - profile ventures, the cast is rounded out by an assortment of heavy - hitters, all of who attempt — with mixed results — to enliven their one - dimensional roles through sheer force of personality.

Beginning in the 1800s, at a time when photography was inherently experimental, such venture into abstraction, as present in de Molard's fragile, golden images of William the Conqueror's Normandy Castle, was an unusual attempt.

Such a move was attempted last year when a hacker had exploited an ethereum code bug and made away with over $ 50 million worth of the digital currency from Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), which is a form of investor - directed venture capital fund.