ambitious attempt

collocation in English

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ambitious
adjective
uk
/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us
/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...
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attempt
noun[C]
uk
/əˈtempt/us
/əˈtempt/
the act of trying to do something, especially ...
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(Definition ofambitiousandattemptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Neural organization is a bold andambitiousattemptto outline some of the common threads in the constant flux of neuroscience research.
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The work presented here is a moreambitiousattemptto develop a complete network analyzer with neural networks.
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This chapter contains anambitiousattemptto produce a taxonomy of types of corruption based on the definition above.
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Nevertheless, the databases in all three countries must be considered anambitiousattemptto provide doctors and patients with information.
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Chapter 9 makes anambitiousattemptto explain what researchers mean by the word "meaning" and to suggest how meaning might be computed by the mind.
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He begins his book with an account of theambitiousattemptby his team to investigate the impact in quantitative terms by tracking changes in various measures of lifestyle behaviour.
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They did not even bother to think out the difficulties ahead of such anambitiousattempt.
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It is the biggest and mostambitiousattemptat positive planning of environment that this country has ever made.
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This is the mostambitiousattemptever made in the history of the world to reduce barriers to trade generally.
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It is anambitiousattemptto reword and simplify the existing law.
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The rapporteur has made anambitiousattemptto shed light on this issue.
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The targets present a genuinely challenging andambitiousattemptto lift the standard of training and education for a substantial part of the nation's work force.
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It has been called the mostambitiousattemptby any research university to make public service part of its core academic mission.
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A theodicy, on the other hand, is a moreambitiousattemptto provide a plausible justification for the existence of evil.
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Encarnacin 1987 uses preferences of this form in anambitiousattemptto reconstruct and explain all the apparent paradoxes in choice theory.
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Both books are ambitious attempts to establish the superiority of their particular perspective and to undermine the positions of their major alternatives.
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The article is a seminal contribution to the field of law and economics, offering anambitiousattempt to treat various areas of the law through a uniform approach.
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This combination of media, comics, and literary guests with gaming, art, anime, and film was anambitiousattemptto create a large convention with regional and national appeal.
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There will be spicy elements, there will be sticky episodes and glittering pages of reckless exploits and ambitious attempts at conquest.
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