Sentences with phrase «apparent attempts at»

Apparent attempts at civil conversation has failed.

In an apparent attempt at damage control, Hain Celestial put out a press release on Monday claiming its «full line of Certified USDA Organic Formulas [is] made with pure, high quality ingredients for babies and toddlers.»

More than that though, there's an incongruity between the apparent attempt at verisimilitude in the directing and the other major elements of the film.

Not exact matches

Another account aimed at African - Americans promoted the candidacy of the Green Party's Jill Stein, in an apparent attempt to pull votes from Clinton.

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

It is now apparent that this effort was, at least in part, the attempt of a culture whose religious dimensions were fading to find some other area in which the religious passions could be exercised.

Tom Brady has attempted to sidestep his apparent Trump support, including at Super Bowl media day.

A story in Chile reported that Alexis Sanchez received a personal phone call from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, in an apparent attempt to convince the Chilean superstar to join him at the Etihad.

And few have cried as much as Conte with his frustrations, his barely concealed anger at the club's transfer dealings and his apparent attempts to gain more power.

The Greg Schiano fiasco got the ball rolling, but misses on Mike Gundy, Jeff Brohm, Dave Doeren — along with an apparent lone wolf attempt to hire Mike Leach — did Currie in with people that matter at Tennessee.

Instantly — and unconsciously — the fielder gauges this apparent change in velocity and begins pedaling forward or backward in an attempt to neutralize it, so that he will be standing in exactly the right position to pluck the ball out of the air when it at last completes its plummet.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

Backdraft follows newly - minted firefighter Brian McCaffrey as he attempts to prove himself to his older brother (and experienced fireman) Stephen (Kurt Russell), with the movie eventually detailing the protagonists» efforts at identifying and stopping a deadly arsonist with an apparent grudge against the city.

But this would require a degree of invention that the film seems uninterested in even attempting — Shaun breaks in and out of the property with ease, hatches plans whose parameters never become apparent, and manages to be exactly where she needs to be at all times, basic continuity or physics be damned.

Also something that has also been apparent in these games has been rather pathetic attempts at trying to recreate what its like on the street with these races, as the voice acting has never been one of the games stronger points.

Using the mismatch of traditional and modern as the basis of all attempts at hilarity (spanning parenting styles, technology, behaviour and anything else that has evolved in form and function over the last half - century), the feature dares not depart from the standard, as apparent hijinks ensue.

And the telecast included several apparent attempts to showcase diversity after Oscar voters were criticized on that score at the time of nominations.

It's either that, or the Melfi would rather attempt to show how clever he is in cleaning up the apparent flaws in the robbery, instead of creating characters who are at least consistent in their capacity to pull off a heist worth more than $ 2 million.

Besides a lackluster translation filled with poorly conceived attempts at mythological nomenclature, the localization team saw fit to fiddle with the game's balance, alter character art in order to make the cast appear more western, and even remove whole sections of the game for no readily apparent reason.

Washington — In an apparent attempt to answer criticism that he has ignored the nation's needs here at home, President Bush last week unveiled a series of domestic - policy initiatives that he said will expand individual opportunity.

In an apparent attempt to expand its reach beyond that provided by the partnership with U.S. News & World Report, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) today unveiled a new interactive web site aimed at helping prospective teachers select a preparation program based on the ratings developed in NCTQ's Teacher Prep Review.

An 18 - year - old charged with murder at a McDonald's restaurant on the Fourth of July was accused Tuesday of ripping down ceiling tiles in his Wake County jail cell in what authorities said was an apparent escape attempt.

In an apparent attempt to help Cadillac salespeople get more ATS and CTS models off the showroom floor, the carmaker has introduced a new cosmetic package dubbed «Black Chrome.»

Also something that has also been apparent in these games has been rather pathetic attempts at trying to recreate what its like on the street with these races, as the voice acting has never been one of the games stronger points.

Anyway, as is the internet's want, the Destiny community erupted at Smith's remarks, as he attempted to justify the apparent price gouging.

One of the features the exhibition and its accompanying substantial catalogue made apparent is that Matisse, at the same time he devoted himself fully to all elements of book production, maintained a catholic attitude, assessing each book project in its own terms, always attempting to innovate within a given form.

It is rather a simple attempt to go back to a beautiful moment in time when it became apparent that the same glorious aesthetic results had somehow been arrived at by painters who were a generation apart.

I think that Joe Public would be quite shocked that there is still so much apparent uncertainty in such a fundamental aspect of climate science, given the huge disruption already being caused by what may turn out to be premature attempts at mitigation.

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«The point being, that the negligence will not be known at the point when limitation, in the primary sense of the law, expires; such negligence not becoming apparent until such point as attempts are made to sell or re-mortgage the property.

The difficulty began to be apparent as failed attempts delayed our project week after week until we are now at least a month behind schedule.