Sentences with phrase «apparent attempts by»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Adding to the Bitconnect concerns was a crop of attempts by apparent scammers to take advantage of the confusion to trick users into handing over the contents of their cryptocurrency wallets.

Various attempts have been made to clear up this apparent contradiction by postulating an earlier Roman census in Palestine, but it can not be said that they have been entirely successful.

In fact, the attempt to use television uncritically is a prime example of what Frederick Ferre has called our «technolatry,» the belief that «every apparent evil brought on by technique is to be countered by yet greater faith in technique.»

Having pointed out the failure of Hasker's various attempts to show the apparent advantage of process theism with regard to moral evil to be illusory, I turn to his attempt to show the same with regard to natural evil, understood as evil not caused by human agents.

«A difficult moment for America» was his first attempt, quickly followed by «a national tragedy» and «an apparent terrorist attack.»

«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.

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.

«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.

Lord Mandelson attempted to breathe life into a subdued Labour conference today by insisting that the party could, like him, return from apparent oblivion and triumph again.

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.»

Coley unearthed 47 similar cases and grew so intrigued by the apparent link that he scoured the ghettos of New York's Lower East Side to find a German immigrant whose cancer had disappeared, according to medical records, after contracting erysipelas following several failed attempts to remove his tumor.

In a related study, recrudescence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi following antibiotic treatment was attempted by transient immunosuppression of the mice with corticosteroids without apparent consequence [15], but that outcome would be expected when spirochete burdens in tissues are under control of antibody.

Autoimmune conditions, in which the immune system attempts to destroy the body with inflammatory cells, are growing by leaps and bounds, with no apparent signs of stopping.

Working from a script by John Cairns and Michael McCartney, Lennox achieves a solid balance between genuine tension and the dark comedy afforded by Sandy's botched attempts to be free of his apparent new life companion.

When Lance finds Kyle dead in a manner reminiscent of the David Carradine scandal, the father attempts to salvage the boy's reputation by posing him in an apparent suicide.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

It's fair to say that Zack Snyder was wrestling with a number of interesting themes, and perhaps he wanted to do his spin on something like David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., but either he doesn't have the intellectual weight, or the narrative was too compromised by making a studio picture (I'll give him some wiggle room for attempting something this audacious) to fully form all the ideas that are apparent here.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

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.

There is an apparent attempt to make the game edgy or adult by slinging a few choice words in the script.

It further shows Activision was forced to sever the relationship when it became apparent that long - standing attempts failed to convince West and Zampella to conform their conduct to what was required of them by their contracts, company policies and as fiduciaries.»

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.

Mark, the Scientia Media and Monlinism: scientia media was a ky term used in the theology of Luis de Molina (1535 - 1600) Jesuits, later on instructed using variants of his teaching, by such persons as: Robert Bellarmine, Leonard Lessius, Francisco Suarez, and Gabriel Vasquez, which attempted to resolve the apparent conflict between the doctrines of grace and free will.

Whilst his attempts to understand the issues raised by complainants are on - going, it has become clear to him that the apparent good health and well - being of the great majority of the community deserves to be more widely known.»

The SCC made no apparent attempt to decide whether it was obliged to submit the reference under Article 267 TFEU or to apply the criteria established by the CJEU in the Cilfit case.

Assuming the Supreme Court does attempt, again, to clarify the jurisprudence, it will probably take a year or so before the Clements reasons will have been considered often enough by the provincial and territorial courts that clear trends will be apparent.

I have had calls from lawyers in the midst of handling apparent fraud attempts who were wanting to verify whether the lawyers named as the drafter of the collaborative family law agreements presented to them by the fraudsters were in fact real lawyers.

When I reviewed John's resume, it was apparent that the previous resume writer loaded it with skills like «problem solving, interpersonal skills, communication, customer service and so on» in an attempt to make more it search able by the recruitment software (resume tracking software used by employers to manage resumes).

«The Court is troubled by Mother's apparent attempt to alienate G from Father.

he married the mother of the child before the birth of the child in apparent compliance with law, even if the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and the child is born during the invalid marriage or before the 301st day after the date the marriage is terminated by death, annulment, declaration of invalidity, or divorce;

Both resilience - building strategies and attempting to reduce or remove the negative factor by focusing on it are useful and complement one another, but it seems timely given the apparent literature bias in this review, for future studies to focus on the positive end of the human functioning spectrum.