Sentences with phrase «abortive attempts»

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!

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

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.

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.

The wheels are in motion and the speed is visibly increasing, rendering perfectly abortive any attempt at resistance on our part, whether physical or mental, to the tide that is sweeping us along.

9 - 20 is continued and concluded in I Kings 1 - 2, with an account of David's last days, Adonijah's abortive attempt to take the throne, and Solomon's accession.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

«Something like 20 or 30 years ago main stream publishing made a mostly abortive attempt to shut down both libraries and used book stores.»

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

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.

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The attempt by a minister who is new in a church to introduce the distribution of leadership principle quickly is usually abortive.

The arc of the show, over six seasons, has traced their attempts to leave their sins behind — Tony's dialogues with his therapist and halting steps toward self - knowledge; Carmela's religious forays, adulterous fantasies, and abortive quest for a divorce.

He made an abortive NFL comeback attempt in 2006, never getting beyond workouts with the Redskins, and then navigated the reality - TV circuit (Pros vs. Joes, Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge).

Attempt to reach anyone that could possibly identify with her proved abortive as none of her relatives could be traced prior to the arrival of the medical personnel.

This came after attempt to reach Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the commission through his phone line proved abortive.

Attempts to reach the Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Olarinde Famous - Cole proved abortive as he didn't take his calls.

Attempts to speak with the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi, proved abortive as his phone kept ringing.

All attempts to try and make the agonising woman to raise her head proved abortive.

He said several attempts made by the complainant to recover his money from the convict months after the transaction proved abortive.

Cecil is only himself when privately and ineptly attempting to woo Lucy, in which his mock - confident stance falls and he shows a more nervous, halting manner, with his abortive kiss of Lucy serving as his most human moment in the film.

Set amid the icy old - world charm of Vienna, the fragmentary romantic drama builds into a hallucinatory thriller, as Harvey Keitel's police detective — sans accent but with killer shoulder - length John the Baptist locks — begins to question Garfunkel over Russell's abortive suicide attempt and forces us to reconsider all that's gone before.

If all attempts to get federal student loans prove abortive, you can then try other sources.