Sentences with phrase «ill fated attempt»

Uzama was a part of the all conquering Nigeria U-17 team of 2015 and also played for the U-20 team during their ill fated attempt to qualify for next year Africa Youth Championship.

Mine got frustrated and froze during its ill fated attempts to get on - line with the WiFi.

Not exact matches

Previous attempts to divine health care reform's fate have proven foolhardy (or at least ill - fated).

Twenty - First Century Fox's (FOXA) attempt to buy Time Warner (TWX), which came to light Wednesday, would be the second - largest media deal ever, trailing behind Time Warner's ill - fated merger with AOL in 2000.

But it was the debate over BHP Billiton's ill - fated attempt to acquire Potash Corp. that took «strategic asset» from an occasional buzzword to a full - on verbal tic for some politicians.

Part of that was an ill - fated attempt to take over Circuit City, which went bankrupt soon afterward.

The Conservatives» first attempt to get rid of the subsidy, announced in the fall of 2008, triggered the ill - fated bid by opposition parties to form a coalition and replace Harper's minority.

Partial data tells us that Ferro bought at prices from $ 8.50 (his initial price when then - Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin brought his investment into the company in an ill - fated attempt to buy the Orange County Register) to $ 15.

Bic's attempt to reach out to that always - hard - to - tackle female market with a special brand of «Bic for Her» was an ill - fated move from the start.

(director Daren Aronofsky's ill - fated attempt to tell the story of Genesis to Revelation through a series of uninvited house guests), Christianity plays a role in the stories that drive our culture.

His attempt to do so during Wales's ill - fated bid to reach the 2010 World Cup was an almost unqualified failure.

Other than my ill - fated attempt at the mythical $ 10 cheapie stroller, we've stuck to full - size around these parts.

Dr. Bawumia drew my ire with his work on Togo and ill - fated attempt to join Dzifa Attivor in the ethno - religious gutter but he was solid gold yesterday.

Barron hopes to ditch the Democrats entirely and begin a a black - and brown - led party, something he attempted in his ill - fated 2010 run for governor on the «Peace and Freedom Party» line.

Subsequently, numerous radical White Papers came to nothing, most recently Nick Clegg's ill - fated bill in 2011, but the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, colloquially referred to as the Norton - Steel - Byles Bill, will see minor reforms introduced on the sixth attempt at passing various incarnations of that bill.

When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.

The U.S. space agency's Mars Polar Lander went missing on Dec. 3, 1999 during its own ill - fated landing attempt.

However, since an ill - fated attempt to borrow from their betters — that lame remake of Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid — they lapsed into a nearly five - year silence.

Based on a true story, this movie follows their ill - fated attempt and the tale of the lone survivor (Mark Wahlberger).

Since Brian DePalma's sublime 1976 original, an underrated direct - to - TV sequel The Rage: Carrie 2 as well as an ill - fated 2002 TV movie adaptation have both attempted to bring new insights to King's primal story of teen shame, repressed violence and pubescent horror.

Audience of One (Unrated) Faith - based documentary recounting divinely - inspired, Pentecostal preacher - turned - film producer Richard Gazowsky's ill - fated attempt to shoot a Biblical epic, a sci - fi version of the story of Joseph.

The action begins when the mayor's mistreated orphan ward, Atari (Koyu Rankin), makes an ill - fated attempt to rescue the first doggy deportee, his former guard dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber).

When he was ready to work again, he considered making The Exorcist III but eventually settled on an ill - fated Chevy Chase vehicle, the $ 40 million sci - fi adaptation Memoirs of an Invisible Man, that torpedoed his attempted return to big - budget filmmaking.

During an ill - fated attempt to give her little sister Justine (Garance Marillier) a bikini wax, Alexia (Ella Rumpf) ends up accidentally cutting off her own finger, then immediately fainting from shock.

Two years later, García took a leave of absence to run for Congress in an ill - fated attempt to unseat a Republican.

This ill - fated attempt to quickly improve testing results simply doesn't work, and it does not come from a faulty state - testing system.

Your editor doesn't expect either Harkin, Alexander, or Mike Enzi (who helped Harkin on his previous and blessedly ill - fated attempt at reauthorizing No Child) to ask this question.

In keeping with the brand's gradual push toward establishing a brand identity, the oddly - named Red Sport line of 400 - hp models goes above and beyond what the ill - fated IPL attempted to do.

Michael Worthington - Williams investigates / A Brickyard Failure: Robert Arbuthnot at Indy — David Venables researches the career of Robert Arbuthnot and his ill - fated attempt to compete at Indianapolis in 1946 / Back On The Road — Michael Ware travels to East Anglia to look at a recently restored 1913 Isotta Fraschini Tipo FC4 that is now on show at the Caister Castle Museum

Springer humanizes Mordred, bastard son of King Arthur, in a thoroughly captivating and poignant tale as we watch Mordred's ill - fated attempt to negate his destiny as his father's slayer.

After several ill - fated attempts, Francesca finally lands a freelance writing assignment with «Chicky,» an old woman who wants to tell the story of her 1920s vaudevillian forebears.

Google first cut its teeth in the publishing world with its ill - fated attempt to scan and catalog every book in existence and came under an onslaught of lawsuits from estates of dead writers and publishing companies.

The Imperial Transatlantic Expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton's daring but ill - fated attempt to cross the South Pole, comes to life in pictures taken by one of the crew and in the words of the men who lived the extraordinary Antarctic adventure.

This is a far - cry from its ill - fated attempts at reaching the consumer market with the QUE e-Reader and its most recent offering geared towards the Russian educational system.

After last Monday's post «Erotic Novel Serves as Good Fertiliser» was followed by HarperCollins launching erotica for women, we make no apologies for an ill - fated attempt to get #eroticweek trending on Twitter.

At one point, Maxis lets Samantha keep a pregnant dog in an ill - fated attempt to stay close to his daughter after her mother's death.

I have my original GameCube copie (s) from that ill - fated year of Nintendo's weak and strange E3, where they showed off asymmetric interconnectivity with the Game Boy Advance in desperation to drive more $ ales by attempts at innovatingly making them work together... that and all those CABLE$!!

And as we take time to reminisce about Sega's beloved but ill - fated console, publisher Redspotgames is attempting to grab our attention by announcing their new game for the now - obsolete Dreamcast.

To a certain extent, Insomniac attempted this formula on the PS2 as well, following their first three Ratchet and Clank games with Ratchet Deadlocked, an ill - fated response to the rise in popularity of online competitive multiplayer.

Horrific memories of some of the ill - fated attempts at VR gaming in the past still linger: yes Virtual Boy, we're looking at you.

It should not come as a surprise when I openly admit that initially, I'd prematurely dismissed the Uncharted franchise as nothing more than an ill - fated, uninspired attempt to ride shotgun on the success train of the Tomb Raider franchise — now, that's not because I'm the largest, self - proclaimed Tomb Raider fan on the East Coast, but primarily because the similarities were abundant and I struggled to comprehend the difficulty to grasp the reins of innovation and creativity in a world of infinite possibilities.

Zack ends up transformed into a small Drake who follows Toki through time as she attempts to rewind back time to the prevent Zack's ill - fated demise... well, semi-demise.

An ill - fated attempt to fold a paper crane from memory gave the title to Simon Dybbroe Moller's most comprehensive museum show thus far, «Like Origami Gone Wrong.»

In truth, since the Beautiful Inside My Head Forever sale in 2008, Hirst has made several attempts to move on with new art work — there was the ill - fated attempt at painting like Francis Bacon sponsored by Victor Pinchuk and shown at London's Wallace collection — and revive his market with stunts like the global Gagosian show of spot paintings.

They have raised sharp concerns about the reactor design Westinghouse was peddling, and the company's ill - fated attempt to run one of America's first nuclear projects in decades.

We have to move from ill - fated attempts at (global) regulation, which are probably doomed to failure... to adaptation, and quickly.

Flint's now infamous water problems stem from an ill - fated attempt to save money by disconnecting from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, which had provided the city with water from Lake Huron for decades.

The context for this MoJ initiative is probably the ill - fated outcome of the Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) attempt to prosecute British Aerospace (BAE) for overseas corruption.

Therefore, when the Merriam - Webster dictionary defines artificial intelligence as «the power of a machine to copy intelligent human behaviour», it is, in our view, making a broad overgeneralisation and, we dare say, an ill - fated attempt to give human traits to software.

Looking even further back, Motorola also attempted a similar Android - based solution with the ill - fated Motoblur.