Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

tentativas in English:

1. trial trial


The defendant was about to stand trial when he grabbed the deputy's gun and shot the judge.
At the trial, both sides the will give their opening statements
clinical trial
I had a dream last night, about silk and fine cloth or about equality and fair trial.
The verdict at issue in these discussions is the one brought in the Lander's trial in 1994.
The trial lawyers couldn't get past the Mafia leader's stonewalling tactics.
In that kind of case, it's best to make a trial of drawing up a budget.
In the religious-cult trial, the ambitious lawyer will represent the cult leader.
Not enough mountains and too much time trialing, he said.
the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent. When a case comes to trial, it is brought to a court and the person who has been accused of a crime stands trial (=appears in court)
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It took him more than twelve hours, and when he arrived, he discovered that Champmathieus trial had already started.
His trial began in November 2009.
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

2. attempts


Attempts to fight the fire with buckets soon proved fruitless.
All our attempts failed.
Attempts to negotiate a peace treaty failed.
He makes no half-hearted attempts.
His desperate attempts at distancing himself from his old left-wing ties have impressed no one so far.
The attempts were for the most part unsuccessful.
The New Yorker attempts to reïnstate the English diaresis in words like "coöperation," "zoölogical," and "reëntry"—an odd thing to reinstate in this day and age, and hardly in cooperation with most zoology.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
The dog's attempts to climb the tree after the cat came to nothing.
Masterpieces are but successful attempts.
American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.
We have made several failed attempts at foresting the local landfill.
Attempts to redraw voting districts have hit a wall of opposition.

English word "tentativas"(attempts) occurs in sets:

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