Sentences with phrase «attempt at gaining»

No your poorly written and rambling article which is a transparent attempt at gaining sympathy from the public didn't help me understand how you aren't breaching your fiduciary duties when you use an open house to score new clients.

Remember that these kinds of Orders are not to be used for alternative purposes (such as an attempt at gaining the upper hand in divorce proceedings).

Am I missing something or is this just another crappy attempt at gaining traffic?

When word starts to leak back to Harge, it becomes a sticking point in Carol's attempt at gaining custody of their daughter.

Including this kind of thing is a cheap attempt at gaining some scientific credibility, like someone using big but non-relevant words in a speech.

So the accounts annoying attempts at gaining recognition, tweeting other games companies, and making stupid jokes about peoples opinions of old Bubsy games falls flat.

Not exact matches

In a statement, Viacom lead director Salerno, among the directors targeted for removal, called Thursday's action a «brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt» by Shari Redstone «to gain control of Viacom and its management in disregard of Sumner Redstone's wishes,» at odds with the board's efforts «to represent the best interests of all of the shareholders of Viacom.»

Hopeful attendees can form a queue outside the venue in an attempt to gain admission — one ticket per person — starting at 7 a.m. that morning.

When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.

Understandably, with huge sums having been lost (and in some cases gained) in the blink of an eye, pointed questions are being asked about the sell which first triggered the process and whether it was an attempt at market manipulation.

This means they are constantly buying and selling stocks to attempt to time the market and capture gains, studies suggest that they fail at this miserably over time and lose more than just keeping the funds in a passive account which is periodically re balanced.

A short while ago the Blackstone hedge fund's co-founder, Stephen Schwarzman, characterized the attempt to tax short - term arbitrage trading gains at the same rate that wage - earners pay as analogous to Adolph Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939.

The organization, at its heart I think, is about gaining equal recognition for our views, and also attempting to stop the spread of biblically inspired laws being proposed and supported by the religious majority.

At this point it is necessary to gain some clarity by problematizing what are normally taken to be simple binaries — clear and seemingly self - evident — like oppressor - oppressed and attempt to see if this almost taken - for - granted polarities are what have been responsible for the lack of progress in our quest for peace and reconciliation.

The evils reflected in their words, and indeed portrayed throughout the Old Testament — avarice, exploitation, bribery, chicanery, and attempts at seizure of power for personal gain — are perennial human tendencies which appear in every State.

We might even find ourselves confiding our emotional pains publicly in social media rants in an attempt to gain sympathy — or at least empathy — when we should be sharing our pains and sorrows with the only one who can provide sustainable relief.

Sherry not only reveals the names and identities of Greene's youthful tormentors, but argues that the suffering he experienced at their hands — and that in part led him to attempt suicide — yielded artistic material throughout his career, and perhaps most richly so in The Power and the Glory: «Into the lieutenant, the priest and the Judas went some of the insight into human nature gained from his experience with Carter and Wheeler, which had involved him in persecution, self - doubt, feelings of cowardice and the fear of betraying.»

Once it had become clear that nineteenth - century historical method had failed to penetrate the depths at which the reality of history lies, and consequently that its «historical Jesus» failed to exhaust the reality of Jesus of Nazareth, it was inevitable that a re-study of historical method should follow, in an attempt to gain access to that deeper level of historical reality.

Regardless of the level of secularization in the society at large, political actors tend to conflate ideology and spirituality, frequently leading to a discourse that incorporates a particular religious perspective in an attempt to gain public support.

I am amazed at how they willingly put themselves at risk attempting to help and even rescue others for little or no personal gain.

At least if you were here in San Francisco I could attempt to facilitate your weight gain with my chopped liver and chicken soup with knaidlach and home made Pastrami etc., Anyway David — inspite of myself — thanks for teaching me how to make a cornucopia of great treats.

I, at one point, saw Monreal reprimand him for attempting a complicated crossfield ball which ended up far away from its target (Monreal), so in my view, Coquelin should quell his desire for always attempting the difficult pass and keep it simple so the senior players can gain trust in him.

Due to some combination of iffy line play and Barkley's own playmaker instincts — which would sometimes lead to him sacrificing a three - yard gain to attempt something greater — Barkley was not an incredibly efficient back at Penn State.

The McLaren reserve wants to win the championship at his first attempt, even if has McLaren admitted that it wants to see experience gained and lessons learned more than anything.

He was even in the team of year for the First Division in 2016 as a teenager, as Limerick FC gained promotion at the end of the 2016 season in their first attempt after being relegated the previous season.

After nine games their local rivals Manchester City have already gained a 5 point lead over United and Mourinho's attempt at a League title is already slipping away due to injured players.

There's also a real irony that at a time when attendances at the Emirates have been steadily dwindling — in large part due to the old familiar failings and the lack of competitiveness — Arsenal are attempting to gain extra revenue by installing more of the most expensive seats in the house.

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.

«A group of Cologne fans entered the Emirates Stadium adjacent to the away section and proceeded to fight with stewards in an attempt to gain entry to the away section at around 20:15,» he said.

Lil Helper DID NOT send me these products free of charge to facilitate a review... after having to change the sheets on my son's bed in the middle of the night, every night for weeks on end, I purchased these products at full price in a desperate attempt to gain back precious minutes of sleep in the middle of the night.

According to Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola University, «American attempts to tailor district lines for political gain stretch back to the country's very origin.»

William Alexander, age 38, residing at 1102 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, was indicted on December 6, 2011 by a Rockland County Grand Jury for the crimes of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the 2nd Degree, Attempted Grand Larceny in the 4th Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 3rd Degree.District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe stated that on or about October 18, 2011, at approximately 6:00 p.m., at Best Buy in the Palisades Center Mall, defendant presented a forged non-driver ID card, in an attempt to gain access to and make a purchase of over $ 2,000, using another person's Best Buy credit card account.

Oneida County still is not collecting a penny in revenues from the Oneida Nation, nor have the attempts to enforce County law against the Nation gained any traction at all.

The campaign finance reform world has turned to the LLC loophole this year after attempts at broader reforms — such public financing of political campaigns — has seemingly dropped off the radar following Republicans gaining full control of the Senate.

«They have resorted to cheap blackmail as it is becoming obvious that the efforts of Ali Modu Sheriff at frustrating every attempt to impose a non party member as our presidential nominee is beginning to gain the attention of well - meaning members.

His impotent attempt to gain sympathy by claiming he was upset by an anti-Semitic comment which was obviously an attempt at humor is a new low even for him.

The GOC, who noted that the Army Division would continue to maintain operational tempo to consolidate on the gains it achieved during the exercise, reiterated the resolve to defeat «any attempt at brazen attacks on national critical infrastructure, oil and gas resources and overall strangulation of the socio - economy of law abiding citizenry by any group of militants or criminals».

Jackie Doyle - Price has been PPC for Thurrock for over two years and her attempt to gain the seat from Labour at the next election (a task for which she requires a swing of 6.5 %) looks like it will be a little easier this evening.

His brother Mark, a former NASA astronaut who gained national attention after an assassination attempt on his wife, former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D — AZ), was a guest at last year's speech.

I won't spoil the ending, but through her attempts at foraging, readers learn about the many available edible weeds (though there are not any pictures, so it isn't a field guide) and gain an interest in the beneficial plants that are all around us.

The chain, which is known for churning out hot meals at a head - spinning pace, has to figure out how to keep up the same pace with customized meals — so as not to push away its current customers as it attempts to gain new ones.

Keys To Healthy Fasting My attempts at fasting always ended the same way — I lost weight then gained it back after a few days.

I have calorie counted until I'm blue in the face, don't loose & slowly gained... Various medical attempts at «helping» have left me worse of.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.

While attempting to gain acceptance at Oxford, an American girl named Rachel (Skye, Say Anything...) atches Charles» eye at a party, and he spends the remainder of his free time plotting to gain her, inputting all of the data into his home computer for analysis.

Based on the WWII novel of the same name by James Jones, the story isn't linear but more fragmented and focusing on particular soldiers in the division of «Charlie Company» and the struggle throughout their attempt to gain land against the Japanese at the island of Guadalcanal in 1943.

To his credit, he does manage to actually gain a few extra chuckles from his manic performance, but the weakness in the material eventually does show, and Mazursky's (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson) attempt at a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1920s and 30s replaces wit and panache with fits of desperation.

Similarly, one can not look at Panic Room, his 2002 mostly forgotten Jodie Foster vehicle all about making three male intruders tear themselves to shreds attempting to gain entry into a small box of a room.

It won't be possible to finish the campaign just from the first attempt but as you gain levels for your plane pilot, you should have an easier time dealing with the difficulty curve that the game can throw at you.

«Progress in science has come from solving one problem at a time, gaining a limited understanding at each step, rather than attempting to explain everything at once.