Sentences with phrase «cynical attempt»

These sorts of cynical attempts by governments everywhere to narrow the definition of torture always end up with people getting damaged.

This decision is a painful reminder that a court may not look favorably on cynical attempts to end - run a protective order.

Fight for the Future characterized AT&T's move a «cynical attempt at misinformation» and said «zero real Net neutrality supporters are fooled» by the open letter.

-- was the concept of the Big Society, a peculiar coagulation of policies that was at best a faintly utopian vision of a country where community togetherness and voluntary organisations could provide public services at a local level, and at worst a deeply cynical attempt to hide a savage program of spending cuts behind a cupcake.

In what seems a fairly cynical attempt to win American sport - lovers over to the world game, the FIFA - sanctioned and script - approved film Goal!

The corporation claims the product is» sweetened by natural sources» and uses the colour green in the livery of the Life cans, the colour universally evocative of health and environmental awareness, in an arguably cynical attempt to associate the product with those same notions of health and well - being.

Thomson lambastes artists such as Hirst for what he says are brazenly cynical attempts to make easy money, despite their claims to be serious craftsmen.

although electric plug - in cars, etc will be welcome, i consider your article to be a self - indulgent, utterly cynical attempt to jump on the peak oil train long after it's left the station.

«This is nothing more than another desperate and cynical attempt by TransCanada to build their dirty pipeline someday if they get a climate denier in the White House in 2017,» said Tiernan Sittenfeld of the League of Conservation Voters.

Brad Gerstner, CEO of Altimeter Capital, called United's proposal «a cynical attempt to preserve power by this entrenched board,» in a statement on Tuesday.

The «awful» scene of the blood eagle in season two was not a cynical attempt to shock the audience: It was about the character's attempt to enter Valhalla by not showing his pain and suffering.

What's more, Bramham suggested the deal was entirely orchestrated by the Port, in a «cynical attempt to polish its terrible public image.»

This rush toward a vote in the Senate is a cynical attempt to roll back an important consumer protection before anyone gets straight answers from Equifax and Wells Fargo about the damage they've done to the financial lives of millions of Americans.

This liberalism — again, liberal in a religious and not a political sense — isn't a cynical attempt to hollow out and destroy the Church, as many of us are tempted to think.

«Physician heal yourself» (Lk 4, 23) quoted here is no more than a cynical attempt to manipulate the local carpenter for the sake of civic pride.

I agree that there have been many attempts to keep scripture out of reach of the laymen and that these attempts have often been a cynical attempt to keep power concentrated in the hands of a few.

«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

The comments were viewed by senior party figures as a cynical attempt by Farron to distance himself from the leadership ahead of a post-election move for the crown.

«So that leave (s) two options as to his thinking: Either it was a cynical attempt to curry favor with the Republican bosses or, in fact, he is a liberal just like Dede Scozzafava.»

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

[100] Galloway said the apology was a cynical attempt to protect Rebekah Brooks.

And he called the boundary reforms «nothing more than a cynical attempt to gerrymander the next election», where they could be Labour's last hope.

Zephyr Teachout, a liberal critic of Cuomo who intends to challenge him in a Democrat primary, said called it a cynical attempt to «buy» votes.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif issued a statement criticizing the Democratic agreement, questioning whether it's a cynical attempt by Cuomo and IDC members to ward off primary challenges.

This is a cynical attempt to spin the data, which was already inadequate, into an excuse to silence the many non-religious people who want to talk about and celebrate Darwin this year.»

They surely must realise that everyone is going to see through this cynical attempt at spin.»

But while Labour's shadow immigration minister says he is «the first to acknowledge that there are real concerns about free movement», he accuses Vote Leave of a cynical attempt to «exploit» the issue, and shut down a debate that they are losing.

Kudos to the State Elections Enforcement Commission for not letting this cynical attempt to circumvent state law pass when Republican State Party Chairman Jerry Labriola complained about it two years ago.

«Reform of parliamentary allowances is long overdue, but Gordon Brown's timing looks like a cynical attempt to distract attention away from Labour's # 15 billion Budget cuts bombshell.»

The Conservatives have branded it a «cynical attempt» by Mr Brown «to save his own skin».

«Furthermore, if this cynical attempt to use arcane election law to gain control of a political party that she didn't help build is successful, it will deny the Women's Equality Party line to 400 local candidates in this year's elections.»

At worst, it's a cynical attempt to placate tens of thousands of educators incensed about high - stakes testing tied to the rollout of the Common Core curriculum in New York.

«But the battle for Britain's future will not be won in lurching to the right, nor by some cynical attempt to calculate the middle distance between your political opponents and then planting yourself somewhere between them.

Sunderland Conservative chairman Graham Hall said publicising the remarks had been a «cynical attempt to derail his campaign».

This is a cynical attempt by Labour politicians to brush evidence about underperformance and failure in the Welsh NHS under the carpet.

The story resolves in lengthy, consecutive climaxes which, refreshingly, don't play like a cynical attempt to pad things out.

It wasn't a cynical attempt to try and make something that was crowd - pleasing».

The character of Tom Sawyer was added as a cynical attempt to appeal to the American audience and younger people.

«Based on real life events» doesn't often mean much to this reviewer — too often those words are (ab) used in a cynical attempt to lend credibility to a story otherwise struggling to maintain it.

It's easy to look at a movie like «Draft Day» as a cynical attempt to promote the upcoming NFL draft in the form of a feature - length film, and to be honest, we wouldn't argue.

could have been a silly little spinoff or a cash grab, a cynical attempt to keep Rocky in the minds of viewers.

Creed could have been a silly little spinoff or a cash grab, a cynical attempt to keep Rocky in the minds of viewers.