Noble attempt, but he couldn't get enough followers.

This noble attempt lasted only five minutes.

The movement was a noble attempt, though the great tragic torso now fixed in the repertoire will not be dislodged.

How did a noble attempt to save a piece of environmental heritage end up like this?

He wasted much effort and money in noble attempts to improve the land, and to relieve the wretchedness and raise the condition of the poorer inhabitants.

She has self-assured glamour and a whiff of aristocracy, being the descendent of a baron and having married into an ancient noble family.

Her noble family had been courtiers for hundreds of years.

This was the area to which the noble family would have retired in medieval communal living times for some relaxation, and today it serves the same purpose.

Though from a noble family, and not an unpopular choice, he quickly lost support by putting in place several unpopular financial measures.

The son of a judge from a noble family, he studied law at university before himself starting work as an advocate.

Another fear was that the legal profession would be viewed as a common trade rather than the noble profession they believed they were part of.

Like all other values, it had its chimeras, but it was an ultimately noble profession.

He's a publisher of cookery books, one of the most noble professions on the planet.

They both see their actions as fulfilling a higher and more noble purpose.

For this noble purpose they gave the building and the whole inventory of the school.

That gave them the luxuries of time and money to pursue noble purposes alongside profitmaking.

It encompasses, usually, a refusal to be petty, a willingness to face danger, and actions for noble purposes.

However, in this noble pursuit can we avoid copying every aspect of a private school education.

It was considered frivolous, a distraction and, worst of all, not a noble pursuit.

And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.

And if, in our noble quest to accept the genuinely persecuted, we find ourselves letting in the fraudulent, so be it.

Probably an extremely noble quest to show soldiers who'll be hurt in the future that life can go on.

What are the consequences - economic and social - of this, er, noble quest?

What a noble sacrifice, though, to share it with us all.

Yes, you could make the noble sacrifice and leave him to a 'better love', or you could get this into perspective and proportion.

I'm clearly not cut out for noble sacrifice.

A noble sacrifice for his art.

It was a noble sentiment, but raised a question: how long will those papers be there for you?

A noble sentiment, and a brave one given that people were paying 60 for a career retrospective.

A noble sentiment, but great nations are forged neither by mooning around misty lakes, nor whiling away hours in the theatre.

It's a noble sentiment, albeit slightly undercut by her use of the third person.

Noble sentiments, of course, but so boringly expressed.

One after the other, from every home, it drew every pure and noble soul, and gathered them under the banner of truth.

The relation fills his noble soul with sorrow and disgust.

Leave political lobbying like that to less noble souls.

But a few noble souls sheltered wearers of the yellow star until the war's end, at risk of their own lives.

Only a few noble souls express sympathy or outrage.

We have a noble tradition of coping with elements, not trying to change them.

This country has a long and noble tradition of welcoming people of all nationalities to our shores.

Strictly has a long and noble tradition of celebrities and dancers sharing late-night cabs to save the planet.

Apprenticeships are in a noble tradition and offer great opportunity.

The coffeehouse clientele harks back to a noble tradition.