Sentences with phrase «abortive attempt»

I was immediately reminded of abortive attempts from the early days of home videophilia, when The Criterion Collection came out with LaserDiscs of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Bram Stoker's Dracula containing instructions for using that format's rudimentary chapter - programming to create different edits on the fly.

To date, after making a couple abortive attempts at night - training her, I haven't worried about it too much, but I am getting tired of buying pull - ups.

He recalled the detention of incoming passengers from Muslim nations, all of them cleared to enter the country under President Barack Obama, at John F. Kennedy Airport in January after Trump made his first abortive attempt at a travel ban.

After several abortive attempts, and at least three completed earlier novels, I found a buyer for the Spanish thriller, Semana Santa, which appeared in the UK in 1996, won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for first - time novelists, and went on to be published in several different languages around the world, then turned into a movie.

The Daily, an abortive attempt at a tablet newspaper launched by News Corp. in 2011 (at an estimated cost of more than $ 60 million) was updated several times a day.

Action: Throw away all your connected devices — and choose your friends wisely Who is this for: Fugitives and whistleblowers How difficult is it: Privacy doesn't get harder than this Tell me more: Last month the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont — who, in October, dodged arrest by the Spanish authorities by fleeing to Brussels after the region's abortive attempt to declare independence — was arrested by German police, after crossing the border from Denmark in a car.

After an abortive attempt to explain mind in terms of objects» or characteristics of events, he proposed to explain it in terms of the supersession of physical occasions by mental occasions.

Sin is not possible without freedom, but it does not necessarily follow from it.4 The issue in Niebuhr's doctrine of sin is not man's finiteness in nature, but his abortive attempts to escape that finiteness.

Psychopathology and the neurotic anxiety that fuels it are abortive attempts to cope with existential anxiety.

It is not at all impossible that Numbers 14 preserves the memory of an abortive attempt to occupy Canaan by approach directly from the south (vv.

Further, we have seen that after the abortive attempt to employ Hegelian philosophy as a natural theology, Continental Protestant theologians turned against natural theology as a whole.

I was in the mood for burgers and discovered we were out of ground beef, but we do have a ton of quinoa in the freezer (from an abortive attempt at a special diet for our puppy — long story), so I thought I would search for a quinoa burger recipe, and found this.

If those plots were, ultimately, successful, Grant Shapps» abortive attempt to unseat Theresa May a few weeks ago showed that, more often than not, they end in failure.

The trouble with politics is that it can attract the sort of person who wants to make their name and usually a name is gained by changing something, whether or not the change is good — Edward Heath taking Britain into the Commonmarket or Nick Clegg's abortive attempt to destroy the House of Lords spring to mind.

After an abortive attempt with his friend Stephen Crabb to mount a bid for the leadership, where he would have been chancellor, he took the communities brief under Theresa May.

The lecturer also described Freud's abortive attempt to ground psychology in neurological observations about the brain.

The Barents expedition journal tells of their abortive attempt to melt the permafrost with fires to make a better foundation.

However, soon after arriving things began to go wrong for her with an abortive attempt to cast her in Message To Garcia with Wallace Beery, during the filming of which she was hospitalized.

In the meantime, Crichton delivers a swell feature - length commentary full of auto - analysis («I live in the future,» he confesses) and seldom - heard production anecdotes that encompass his abortive attempt to bring Congo to the silver screen long before Frank Marshall came along.

Mesrine cut quite a swash of murder and mayhem across Europe and North America in the 1960s and 1970s, languishing in several jails including Quebec's Special Corrections Unit (St. Vincent de Paul prison) from which he first escaped and later returned to in an abortive attempt to free some fellow inmates.

Pisha took a predictably roundabout route to Harvard: stints at rubber and bleach factories, community college, an abortive attempt at law school, and some very rewarding public school teaching and work with learning - disabled students.

So after two abortive attempts to make up a terrible score on a unit quiz, she finally passed the quiz with flying colors - because she had a study method that worked!

She brings up Tokyopop's abortive attempt in 2007 to make slow selling titles «exclusives» and sold only through them.

«Arthritis is basically an abortive attempt by the body to stabilize the joint by adding bone.»

A Toronto lawyer who left Bay Street in 2006 in an abortive attempt to make it as a professional Internet poker player has failed in a bid to write off the $ 120,000 loss he ran up that year before slinking back to practice.

I have been using Ubuntu Linux exclusively for nearly a year now, with one abortive attempt to return to Windows.

An abortive attempt by the backbench business committee to give some shape to these occasions, by trying to group speeches on particular subject areas together, has now been abandoned.