Sentences with phrase «apparent attempt»
The phrase "apparent attempt" means it seems like someone is trying to do something, although it may not be confirmed or clearly obvious. Full definition
Calls for the EC to abandon the current voters» register and compile a new one has intensified in recent days, led by the Let My Vote Count Alliance, which, two weeks ago, embarked on a demonstration which led to bloody clashes with police after some of the demonstrators veered off the approved route in apparent attempt to head to the office of the EC.
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Apparent attempts at civil conversation has failed.
There is a strong focus on Peter Mandelson with several emails citing apparent attempts by the then business secretary to usurp Miliband as foreign secretary.
And the telecast included several apparent attempts to showcase diversity after Oscar voters were criticized on that score at the time of nominations.
(Dzhokhar's lawyer would later argue in court that his dead brother was the main instigator of the crime, in an apparent attempt to help her client avoid the death penalty.)
«The firm believes Tesla's Autopilot feature is defective and likely caused Huang's death, despite Tesla's apparent attempt to blame the victim of this terrible tragedy,» according to the law firm, Minami Tamaki.
During former FBI Director James Comey's hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Ryan held a press conference in which he attributed Trump's apparent attempts to persuade Comey to drop the investigation into the president's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, to his inexperience in politics.
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.
Ben Smith, editor - in - chief of BuzzFeed, told the Times that the move to exclude his site and others from the briefing was clearly «the White House's apparent attempt to punish news outlets whose coverage it does not like.»
Dell, for instance, last week pledged to spend an astounding $ 125 billion in China over the next five years in an apparent attempt to revitalize its struggling business.
Beyoncé's recent single «7/11» played in the background, an apparent attempt to establish the video's contemporaneity.
Shares in the company were once again sliding on Monday after the company's C.E.O., Elon Musk, joked on April 1 that Tesla had gone bankrupt, an apparent attempt to make light of concerns that the electric car maker is straining under its debt load.
A bot is thought to be behind the posting of thousands of messages to the FCC's website, in an apparent attempt to influence the results of a public solicitation for feedback on net neutrality.
He was known to lurk in the West Wing on nights and weekends in an apparent attempt to get more one - on - one time with Trump.
Wilders» film «Fitna,» which he released online in March 2008 to international outcry, features disturbing images of terrorist acts superimposed over verses from the Quran in an apparent attempt to paint Islam as a threat to Western society.
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.
Investigators said Paddock killed 59 people and planned the massacre so meticulously that he set up a camera in the peephole of his hotel room in an apparent attempt to spot anyone coming for him.
In an apparent attempt to rock your Monday, Kanye West has finally made The Life of Pablo available on all streaming services.
Embattled Murray Goulburn has boosted the milk price it pays farmers in an apparent attempt to stem the flood of major producers leaving Australia's biggest dairy processor.
That's probably not much solace to Fresno State, though, given what happened next: Tedford rushed onto the field in an apparent attempt to call timeout and, maybe, ask for a review.
However, fans may not be too pleased to hear about this apparent attempt at running over an innocent woman, which just fuels the bad - boy reputation he already arrived in England with.
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In an apparent attempt to strengthen the squad, Mundo Deportivo have reported that they could be eyeing a raid on Valencia for Carlos Soler this summer, with the 20 - year - old having an $ 80m release clause in his contract.
Arsenal fans are currently hailing Mesut Ozil's apparent attempt to persuade Alexis Sanchez to sign a new deal with the Gunners.
Real Madrid decided against holding their traditional pre-match news conference yesterday in an apparent attempt to defuse the war of words bet -LRB-...)
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.
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.»
As was revealed last week, Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman in a report recommended criminal prosecution over the apparent attempt to skirt donation caps.
But we can not lose ourselves in an apparent attempt to save ourselves.»
Bravo host Andy Cohen jumped on the F train on May 10, 2018, in an apparent attempt to escape the dreaded allergy season.
The Metropolitan Police Service handled this apparent attempt by agents of the News of the World to interfere with a murder inquiry by having informal discussions with Rebekah Brooks, then editor for the newspaper.
Kent and Garcia at a union convention later «badgered» one of the earlier whistleblowers in an apparent attempt to delay the investigation.
* As The Post first detailed, the group used a for - profit subsidiary called Data & Field Services in an apparent attempt to conceal some of its finances.
The trial also offered testimony that a lobbyist conducted government business with a number of high - ranking Administration officials through private emails — not through government email addresses — in an apparent attempt to avoid the state's openness laws celebrated during Sunshine Week.
«We have a fear that this apparent attempt to compromise what was otherwise a very smooth and transparent process would seem to be consistent with what is being alleged to happen to transparent elections overturned by the government in power to have a result already predetermined.
In an apparent attempt to deal with the problem, Corbyn has made Angela Eagle the shadow first secretary of state (as well as shadow busniness secretary).
An online newspaper, (not the Nigeria Politics Online) had claimed that heavily armed gunmen invaded the Governor's mother's residence and disarmed the octogenarian» spolice detail in an apparent attempt to abduct her.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he's gone to the Capitol Police about a bogus sexual - harassment complaint that has been circulated to the media in an apparent attempt to smear him.
Speaking from inside One World Trade Center, Cuomo acknowledged the «roar» heard from Election Day but urged that «we can not lose ourselves in an apparent attempt to save ourselves.»
The leak, an apparent attempt to show MPs what «might have been», seemed to come from someone close to the former foreign secretary.
There has been a lot of talk about the Jewish vote in NY - 6 and the apparent attempt by people associated with Meng's campaign to divert support away from Lancman through the stalking horse candidacy of newcomer Jeff Gottlieb.
Since 1975, that total has only been exceeded four times — in 2006, when an outgoing Gov. George Pataki vetoed hundreds of bills in an apparent attempt to bolster his conservative credentials in advance of a potential 2008 presidential campaign, and three of the four years when the state was governed by Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, and tensions between the Legislature and executive were especially high.
On Wintour and Watt, he writes that reports of Miliband's speech in yesterday's welfare debate have missed «the most significant aspect of his speech — an apparent attempt to reframe Labour's economic policy which is being run by his great rival Ed Balls.»
The statement was ostensibly issued as a protest to the apparent attempt by some big shots in the NDC to impose a running mate on John Mahama for the 2016 polls.
Information casting the developer selection process in a favorable light was provided to another news outlet in an apparent attempt to head off the story you are reading now.
The constituent said that his source for the story was the New York Times, prompting Warren to joke, «Oh, you mean fake news,» in an apparent attempt to mock President Donald Trump.