The work of Lévi-Strauss is the most recent sustained attempt to do so.
Some observers consider this a sustained stylistic attempt; others merely find it clotting and cloying.
Without a sustained attempt at accountability and atonement, the church will not escape the hovering shadow of that horrible crime.
The late run of form gave fans hope that next season Southampton could mount a sustained attempt at promotion.
Up to 1924 he made a sustained attempt to carve out a career as a concert pianist.
At P.S. 8, many teachers were wary after years of student attrition and few sustained attempts at improvement.
Above all, Mr. Descola engages in a sustained attempt to get into the minds of his subjects, to figure out how they think.
Also, any sustained attempt to govern against the people is doomed to failure, as events of recent decades in this world have shown.
De perenni philosophia was the most sustained attempt at philosophical synthesis and harmony.
This exhibition comes after a sustained attempt to court collectors that has been obvious in the museum's exhibition program.