Sentences with phrase «blatant attempt»

This category is usually reserved for cheap games that are blatant attempts at quick cash for the developer.

This is a totally blatant attempt to get me a free, cat - themed umbrella.

This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.

A widely - shared Steemit post exposed blatant attempts to manipulate an altcoin, but many who read it demurred with the author's assertion that a crime of the highest order had been perpetrated.

Keeping the UK within the Single Market sounds on the face of it more acceptable than their earlier blatant attempts to frustrate the referendum result being enacted.

The writers make pathetic use of the Showtime freedoms... like having an amputee have sex with a prostitute... Unnecessary and a pathetically blatant attempt of sexual appeal.

At the same time, it's a very blatant attempt to mask the game's light amount of content by artificially lengthening the story mode.

Seeing the brand used for a fairly blatant attempt at getting a little cash from one of the mobile flavors of the moment just doesn't seem right to some people, and I can certainly understand that point of view.

These smiling Democrat senators recently held a «climate change» sleepover at the Capitol that was a rather blatant attempt to please their billionaire - crony donors.

Tyner said the treasurer, Misha Frederick, was involved in a «blatant attempt at political sabotage» and accused her of sending him a semi-nude photo of her earlier this month.

exposed blatant attempts to manipulate an altcoin, but many who read it demurred with the author's assertion that a crime of the highest order had been perpetrated.

In other words, we can expect Android to swipe some of the iPhone X's new «old» features, and the most blatant attempt to do it has now been made official.

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

This is CNN's blatant attempt to give media bias to the Obama administration making all of us Catholics out to be ridiculous people.

This article is simply breath - taking in its dishonesty, as a blatant attempt to manipulate public perception of a man who, if he has any faith at all, it is Islam.

thats a blatant attempt to discredit the bible, it's beneath most serious evolutionists to use.

This is a blatant attempt to make ground zero a holy spot, and do not be decieved by any other statement!

This is nothing more than a blatant attempt by enemies of our church to embarrass us!

Americans For Limited Government released a statement saying, «Crowley's behavior goes beyond despicable as it was a blatant attempt to influence the presidential election.

Surely somewhere there are some real journalists with integrity that are sickened by the media's blatant attempt to guide this election.

To equate is to a Nazi swastika is just ignorance and a blatant attempt to inflame emotions that are already high.

There is a countrywide push to teach the National Council on Biblical Curriculum in public schools, but its curriculum is a blatant attempt to project far - right aspects of the Bible.

Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network takes a different view: «Academic study of the Bible in a history or literature course is perfectly acceptable,» he says, «but this curriculum represents a blatant attempt to turn a public school class into a Sunday school class.

Without defending their cause the majority of Evangelicals deplore the actions of this extremist group and their blatant attempts to anger the American public.

It's pretty much a blatant attempt by a religious denomination to affect the free will and lives of American citizens.

I am disgusted by this blatant attempt to subvert citizen rights in favor of corporate power.

Unlike Watford FC's blatant attempts to game the system in the past, Bolton's troubles have been the result of a nearly unprecedented injury crisis.

Swansea were struggling to put Newcastle under any kind of pressure, but Mikel Merino's blatant attempt to win a penalty stirred them into life.

While the club's official Twitter handle was engaged in a blatant attempt to cover up for the ghastly act of their supporters, their club officials were begging the fear stricken fourth official to continue with the game.

Gianaris, a Queens Democrat and deputy minority leader, said the comment was a blatant attempt to speed agreement on the budget along.

According to the Ivorian Born Burkinabe international, the maverick politician's claim that he Toure has infested Afia Schwarzenegger with HIV is untrue and a blatant attempt to destroy his image hence his decision to table the matter before court.

The only surprising thing about Friday's parliamentary debate on ratifying the Istanbul Convention is the surprise expressed at the blatant attempt by Philip Davies MP to prevent Parliament from doing so.

«This is a blatant attempt to talk down the market and the country.

Whilst all the mainstream parties fought the general election on the basis of cuts — a blatant attempt to restore capitalist profitability by making the working class pay for the economic crisis — the balance of forces for the working class under a Conservative led government, with a large majority provided by the Liberal Democrats, is clearly much worse than it would have been under a Labour government or Labour - led coalition.

«Lancman said the blatant attempt to deceive Jewish voters would backfire not only with the Jewish community, but with all voters in Queens who will reject this effort to exploit racial, ethnic and religious differences for electoral gain,» the statement said.

«These are blatant attempts to distract from and undermine the credibility of Special Counsel Mueller,» the New York Democrat said in a statement.

But activists are already bracing themselves to fight this blatant attempt to destroy women's reproductive rights.

Terry Gipson is resorting to lies in a blatant attempt to distract the residents of Dutchess and Putnam counties from the tax - and - spend, anti-Hudson Valley agenda he and his New York City cronies will be enacting if they are handed the keys to the Senate.»

«While our financial review can not determine intent,» Bill Thompson, the city comptroller at the time, told the Times, «this incredible mismanagement begs the question: Was this plain old incompetence or a blatant attempt to mislead the public?»

In my opinion this is the only logical conclusion that can be reached as to why Supervisor Gromack called one of the most ethical Supervisors in Rockland County in what appears to have been a blatant attempt to force him to dismiss the legal firm representing «Clarkstown Residents Opposing Patronage «from any work that it was doing on behalf of another Town.

Erie County, NY — Today, Michelle Schoeneman, candidate for the Erie County Legislature's 10th District, chastised Joe and Ralph Lorigo for their blatant attempt to bury their disgraceful record on middle and working class issues in a recent column in the Buffalo News.

David Laska, spokesman for the Republican State Committee, said this was a «blatant attempt» to boost Cuomo's profile and questioned the timing of the announcement — on a Friday afternoon of a busy news week.

Calling for 10 - a-day, as the press release did, is a blatant attempt to generate a media flurry.