Sentences with phrase «blatant attempts»

Unlike how police officers and other employees of the government are portrayed in movies and TV shows, very few police officers in real life are corrupt enough to fall for bribes or blatant attempts at flirting.

After that, I began seeking ways to deal with vicious attacks and blatant attempts to silence me.

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

You can find my blatant attempts for attention on Twitter @thatabbyrose and on my blog at thatabbyrose.wordpress.com

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.

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

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.

«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.

What a blatant attempt to discredit Christianity just prior to a major Christian holiday!

This focus on people willingly selling themselves into slavery is a blatant attempt at distraction.

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

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

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.

Not only is it a slap in the face to rational thought to advocate teaching Christian Creationism, but it's a blatant attempt at forcing one specific religion on the population.

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

Adding to the problem is that the selection committee thus far appears to be a blatant attempt to appease all the various factions of the sport.

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.

It is not only a gross discourtesy to the Speaker, but a flagrant abuse of the power of the executive, a blatant attempt to pack the committee, and delay its work until the controversy is over.

«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.

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.

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.

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

This is a blatant attempt at getting you to look to her for answers by making you unnecessarily afraid.

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.

Six years after Terminator Salvation, Genisys is a blatant attempt to start over (in fact, it's set to be the opening chapter in a new Terminator series).

Written by «SNL» cast member Will Forte in a blatant attempt at capitalizing on the success of the recent string of sex comedies, «The Brothers Solomon» is neither funny nor heartwarming — it's just plain stupid.

we could debate the dev relations team or a lack of this or that but that is not my issue and calling you out for your blatant attempt at promoting your own app store is justified.

At a glance this is troublesome and a blatant attempt to lock customers in, but they have gone out of their way to keep the platform pretty open.

It's obviously a blatant attempt to obtain your bank account information and once they have your bank account info you're doomed.

Ok, so this is a blatant attempt at getting free links from larger - sized blogs, but I'm a sucker for a compliment so I'm falling for it.

In a blatant attempt to capture some of the popularity of Treyarch's zombie mode, Infinity Ward have cobbled together Extinction Mode in which you and up to three other players have to battle hordes of aliens, your ultimate goal being to destroy the nests from which they presumably intend on taking over the world.

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.

This month's release looks like a blatant attempt to get people who got ps plus when it was first announced to resubscribe.

For the most part, we're talking about human nature here, and the snail's pace at which our economy gouges us is a blatant attempt to exploit that.

It's a blatant attempt to justify the need for big coal fired power plants, since in his memo Perry writes: «Baseload power is necessary to a well - functioning electric grid.»

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.

As for the prominently featured wind turbines and solar arrays — these are a blatant attempt to push the expensive, environmentally damaging, inefficient renewables to which green shysters like Gore are ideologically committed but which will make no difference to climate change.

Bates accused the NOAA study's lead author, Thomas Karl, of using unverified data sets, ignoring necessary agency procedures and failing to archive his research in a «blatant attempt to intensify the impact» of the study ahead of the climate conference.

it looks like a blatant attempt to censor opposing views.

Today, activists rallied outside the coal summit happening alongside the UN climate conference to expose the industry's blatant attempt at greenwashing.