Sentences with phrase «as desperate attempt»

Self - harm can be used as a desperate attempt to relieve some physiological and psychological tension.

Environmental organizations lit into the legislation — which advances to the full House but has minute chances of passing in the Senate — as a desperate attempt to rush a dangerous and unnecessary project.

They use these tactics as a desperate attempt for them to get debts paid off.

Ottessa's book Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, despite it being written as a desperate attempt at commercial fiction.

Let's just frame it as a desperate attempt by the publishers to get away from the wholesale model, which was allowing the monopsony incumbent (Amazon) to extort ridiculous discounts from their suppliers.

Its jumpy editing, slow motion effects, undisturbing scene of teen drinking, and often - blaring soundtrack of broody tunes come across as a desperate attempt to be hip and edgy.

What begins as a desperate attempt to win Libby back becomes an opportunity to win back his self - respect, but everyone from the gambling buddies of his best friend Gordon (Dylan Moran) to Dennis» landlord Maya (India de Beaufort) is placing bets that Dennis falls on his face.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

If you use online dating as a desperate attempt to find your soulmate, its like going to Vegas hoping to win the jackpot.

It's no longer an activity that once was considered as a desperate attempt to meet someone.

The PDP said it was alerting Nigerians to the commencement of what it described as a desperate attempt by the APC - led Federal Government to turn Nigeria into a one - party state.

Labour peer Lord Adonis criticises plan as desperate attempt by May to boost fragile position in upper chamber

Luhmann suggests, not entirely facetiously, that the development of Christianity itself may be seen as a desperate attempt by religious specialists to survive the invention of the written word.

His ability to use slapstick while keeping a straight face is impressive, engaging in pratfalls without them coming across as desperate attempts to create laughs when none can be found.

As the worm larvae develop, they migrate to the skin cause a severe itch, with some cases tormenting infected victims to the extent that there have been many reports of people resorting to burning affected area of the skin with hot coals or hot irons as desperate attempts to relieve the itch.

Not exact matches

The launch of the bitcoin-esque cryptocurrency, called the petro, is viewed by many onlookers as a somewhat desperate attempt to secure cash amid an unprecedented economic meltdown.

In what they said was an attempt to combat «speculation,» authorities last week forced over 200 supermarkets to slash prices, creating chaos as desperate Venezuelans leapt at the chance to buy cheaper food.

But many desperate people also buy lottery tickets as a matter of hope, in a desperate attempt to get themselves out of poverty.

Simply put, as part of a desperate attempt to keep America out of recession and himself out of the ranks of unemployed Americans, Obama has torn a page from the questionable Keynesian play book and just asked his political opponents for permission to toss the mother of all Hail Mary passes.

The opposition parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up votes ahead of the spring election.

WASHINGTON — Fervently proclaiming that he was actually the one responsible for the scandal involving the adult film actress, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue reportedly stated Thursday, in a desperate attempt to serve as President Trump's fall guy, that he was the one who slept with Stormy Daniels.

Popular opinion suggests any slowdown in resource demand from China, which is becoming more desperate in its attempts to revive its flagging economy, will be especially bad for a commodity - dependent economy such as Canada's.

As the network groped for an answer to this question, its increasingly desperate attempts to attract viewers, to turn news into BREAKING NEWS, transformed it into something of a late - night punch line.

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is: Is WeWork headed in the same direction as Ouvah?

Amnesty, even in its weakest forms of non-enforcement of the law and deferred action, without corresponding action to tighten the border and control unlawful immigration, leads directly to the current human crisis as thousands of desperate children (and adults) attempt to enter the United States on the promise that the administration will take no action against them.

Ever since the first presidential debate, the Obama campaign has suffered from the media interpreting everything they do as a desperate and probably misguided attempt to deal with the consequences of....

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

This is a desperate attempt to recapture the masses as they move away from dogma and belief in supernatural things.

Fortunately Mary, there are people out there who actually understand evolution, who have studied evolution and who have doc.umented and taught evolution, so that those of us with even a rudimentary education on the topic can dismiss your comment as nothing more than the desperate and childish attempt to cling to religion even as the rest of the world grows up and embraces reality.

It's really very simple, and it's a non-issue that is being spouted as an «assault» in a desperate attempt to skew voters to the GOP side of the election.

Even in such an apocalyptic novel as Love in the Ruins (1971), what fails to happen — a Louisiana version of Armageddon — is far more important than Dr. Thomas More's desperate attempts to stave off Mephistophelian evil.

It makes me very happy to see this recipe, as it reminds me of a desperate attempt to make rice pudding while I was studying abroad in Florence.

It's a desperate attempt to get a grasp of the two in a world where they stand out as almost alien beings.

Before the start of the series, in a desperate attempt to develop some special strategy to stop Orr and his goal - scoring sidekick, Esposito, Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero had spent long hours analyzing films of his team's repeated losses to the Bruins as well as clips of the Russian national team's checking tactics against Team Canada.

As the half - time whistle was blown, United only had two shots on target out of seven attempts and looked desperate for changes in personnel.

Trev Downey clasps his Mo Salah hot water bottle to his freezing Irish chest and gets into the weeds with Jan Molby, as the lads tackle the Champions League draw and the frankly insane holiday fixture congestion in a desperate attempt to avoid the main topic of the day - the disappointing derby against Everton.

Relegation threatened QPR will attempt to cause an upset in the London derby as they will be desperate for points to fuel their survival attempt, but with Mauricio Pochettino reporting a fully fit squad ahead off tomorrow's game, this is the sort of game Spurs need to be winning if they are serious about getting into the Champions League for the first time since the 2010/11 season.

The most likely scenario is starting with Javier Hernandez as the lonesome striker, bringing Carroll on in a desperate late attempt to score and leaving Diafro Sakho to sulk on the bench.

The game will more than likely take the form of attack vs defence, with Roy Hodgson's side setting up as a double decker bus in a desperate attempt to avoid another relegation scrap.

The Majority leader was convinced the motion was just to trap President Mahama all in a desperate attempt to throw dirt at the president as the NDC gears up to fight a crucial general election in December.

Altschuler aides dismiss the findings as «desperate attempts» to depress the challenger's fundraising.

In a statement by her media adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, the ex-minister who described such move as a joke said «the malicious attempt by Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana to mix Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala up in issues that have nothing to do with her in his letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) adding that it is a desperate joke by an integrity challenged charlatan (ICC).»

However, the SNP - who are the main opposition to the ruling Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition in the Scottish parliament - dismissed the chancellor's comments as a «sad and desperate attempt» to justify his bid to become prime minister.

«As we expected, the government have pulled some random figures out of the air in a desperate attempt to con the public,» Stop HS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin commented.

«This, no doubt, is a continuation of the desperate but despicable and condemnable attempts to destroy the opposition and the voices of reason in this country so as to subjugate every decent Nigerian and turn the country into a banana republic.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif called the Bruno donations «absolutely 100 % legal» and dismissed the complaint as «a desperate attempt to distract people from the fact that the entire Senate Democratic campaign organization is in disarray.»

Shadow home secretary David Davis said dangerous prisoners had been released «as a direct result of overcrowding in prisons and the government's desperate attempts to deal with these problems of their own making».

Bill de Blasio campaign manager Bill Hyers slammed Quinn for the move one week before the primary election, calling it a «desperate attempt to distract attention from her eight - year record of standing with Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly as the overuse and abuse of stop - and - frisk exploded.»

«Our Client hopes that the ongoing scandalization of his name is not a ploy by the Commission to give effect to the desperate attempt by the federal government to intimidate him and destroy his credibility and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as other opposition leaders as the general elections approach in the pretext of war against corruption,» he wrote.

«He either knows this, and is purposely misleading voters in a desperate attempt to garner attention, or he's actually as substance - free as his campaign,» Alcivar said.