Abortive
in sentence
26 examples of Abortive in a sentence
In one dreadfully over long sequence and injured sailor on a ship describes an
abortive
trip to 'Fog Island', whatever that is!
This movie is an abortive, stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra-bad movie.
In a pivotal scene she intervenes to stop a rape and a moron cop throws HER in jail, so after a couple cool shower scenes and some
abortive
prison-dyke seduction she has to take the law into her own hands blah blah blah.
To compound things the exercise was repeated in Martin's unfunny attempt to be Peter Seller's Inspector Clouseau, another
abortive
attempt, in my opinion, to rekindle a demonstrably unfunny career.
I was pleased to note the comparisons to Fritz Lang's "M" (forget the 50's
abortive
remake with lightweight David Wayne).
He naively ignored the harsh lessons of 20 years of
abortive
peacemaking, and insisted on sticking to the worn-out paradigm of direct negotiations between parties that, when left to their own devices, are bound to come to a deadlock.
America offered Iran on a silver platter strategic assets that Khomeini’s revolution failed to acquire either in eight years of war against Saddam or in its
abortive
attempts to export the Islamic revolution throughout the region.
The killings started in October 1965 in the aftermath of an
abortive
coup allegedly planned by the PKI.
The story begins with an
abortive
coup on the night of September 30, 1965, when junior military officers, claiming to be protecting President Sukarno from a right-wing clique, captured and executed the army commander and five other high-ranking generals.
It is in this context that the
abortive
Palestinian “Mecca Agreement” between the religious (Hamas) and the secular (Fatah) to form a national-unity government for Palestine might have established a new paradigm for the future of regime change in the Arab world.
By contrast, a 66-country “pow-wow” like the
abortive
World Economic Conference, held in London in 1933, could never be expected to produce an agreement.
But, when I visited Hong Kong last month – my first visit since the momentous but
abortive
democracy demonstrations of 2014 – people seemed more nervous than they had in some time.
During all of their
abortive
attempts to destroy Israel, the Arabs had relied on the military backing of the Soviet Union.
Finally, the recent
abortive
coup attempt in Bangladesh has shown that the world’s seventh most populous country, struggling to remain a democracy under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, remains vulnerable to its unruly military.
President Gloria Arroyo’s government is on the ropes, with a state of emergency declared in February, following an
abortive
coup attempt and months of instability arising from allegations of fraud in the 2004 elections.
Thus, the Internet plays a more important role than it did in Iran’s
abortive
Green Revolution or during the Arab Spring.
When Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 after an
abortive
attempt by the Greek military junta in Athens to carry out Enosis (unification with Greece), 250,000 or so Greek Cypriots were uprooted from their homes.
Nor is the movement’s brinkmanship entirely irrational, for the legacy of Israel’s 2006
abortive
attempt to destroy Hezbollah is that, for the first time in the country’s history, the military establishment is advocating restraint and actively curbing the more hawkish measures being proposed in cabinet meetings.
A superpower that has earned only frustration in its
abortive
efforts – whether war or regional diplomacy – in the dysfunctional Middle East, the US faces the Iran crisis in the midst of its epochal strategic shift to Asia and the Pacific.
..'As it is hard to do two things well at the same time, the Marquis answered Mathilde with a vacant air, and as though repeating a lesson:'Who does not know poor Altamira?' and he told her the story of the absurd,
abortive
conspiracy.
One of the dragoons had seen the preparations of the Skinner - who had been left alone by the rest of his gang, as soon as they had made their
abortive
attempt at revenge - and was in the act of plunging his spurs into his horse as the fellow fired.
Yielding by degrees to the influence of the exciting liquid, rendered more so by the heat, Mr. Pickwick expressed a strong desire to recollect a song which he had heard in his infancy, and the attempt proving abortive, sought to stimulate his memory with more glasses of punch, which appeared to have quite a contrary effect; for, from forgetting the words of the song, he began to forget how to articulate any words at all; and finally, after rising to his legs to address the company in an eloquent speech, he fell into the barrow, and fast asleep, simultaneously.
I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our
abortive
chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his
abortive
attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.
It would take up a larger volume than this whole work is intended to be to set down all the contrivances I hatched, or rather brooded upon, in my thoughts, for the destroying these creatures, or at least frightening them so as to prevent their coming hither any more: but all this was abortive; nothing could be possible to take effect, unless I was to be there to do it myself: and what could one man do among them, when perhaps there might be twenty or thirty of them together with their darts, or their bows and arrows, with which they could shoot as true to a mark as I could with my gun?
His parents, whose dream for their sons was some respectable and undistinguished calling,blamed him for so often changing his mind, for his fits of enthusiasm,his
abortive
beginnings, and all his ineffectual impulses towardsgenerous ideas and the liberal professions.
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