Sentences with phrase «cynical attempts»

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.

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.

So again, the company is being shown doing the minimum possible — in what might be construed as a cynical attempt to check another compliance box and carry on its data - sucking business as usual.

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.

For Bush's handlers, this is a cynical attempt to justify the domination of the world's oil resources.

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.»

«Let's call this push for increased influence in schooling for what it is: a cynical attempt by the church to «stop the rot» and boost its numbers both through the evangelising of children and through the quite shameful practice of requiring parents to sit on pews simply to ensure their children can get a place at a local school.

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.

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 was little more than a cynical attempt to disguise the true nature of a policy which will penalise marginalised people.

Many people went away feeling that they were being punished for protesting, and that the huge Police operation was a cynical attempt to justify the much - criticised «over-policing» of the G20.

«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.»

But it's not a party at all — it's just a cynical attempt to knock out a huge piece of the progressive infrastructure by stealing votes away from the WFP.»

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.

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

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.

If social learning is to become more than a just a cynical attempt to sell more tools or platforms and is to become an embedded aspect of modern learning businesses, employers do need to reexamine their relationships with their employees and how they want to engage with new knowledge and information.

Lastly, this is a cynical attempt to prop up the broken district.

Either the Academy system is hopelessly naïve or it is a cynical attempt to get yet more for nothing from teachers.

Weingarten's cynical attempt to flip the definition of segregation, which has always referred to systemic efforts to exclude minorities from schools, neighborhoods, and elsewhere, is particularly hypocritical in light of the Wall Street Journal's revelations about UFT Charter School.

Finally, it's hard to see the short timescale of the debate as anything other than a cynical attempt to push through proposals without due consideration.

Then it's a nasty, cynical attempt to force readers into buying the series.

In a sleazy and cynical attempt to make you part ways with your money, many of these agencies like to say that you need a unique ISBN, not just for print and electronic, but also for different formats of eBooks.

Helmet head goosed the contribution limit from $ 5K to $ 10K in a cynical attempt to buy votes and keep the 4 % of Canadians who were already maxing out their TFSA clearly in the Reform Party camp.

Platform competition between the Humble store and Valve should be something we promote because competition drives Valve to improve OUR quality of service, instead of turning into Microsoft who make every design decision in Windows part of a cynical attempt to exploit consumers.

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.

«We see this whole attempt as a cynical attempt to undermine both renewable energy and land conservation,» he said.

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

Of course, it's hard to resist giving in to a more cynical suspicion that reports like these are a vague attempt to drum up a bit of fear within the VC industry, which, in turn, will provide lucrative contracts for the branding agencies that will swoop in to «refresh» a VC's look.

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

«To simultaneously promote Adani's coal mine, which would be one of the world's largest, pretending to care about the world's largest Reef is an acrobatic feat only cynical politicians would attempt,» he said.

Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey is attempting to get cynical SMEs jazzed about a credit card processing system by getting satisfied entrepreneurs to promote the system to each other......

The scene in which Lazarus is raised from the tomb will probably elicit laughter from cynical younger filmgoers, for in an attempt to be authentic to the period, Scorsese has wrapped Lazarus so that he looks like a mummy who wandered over from a horror movie.

The conference was entitled «The Future of Reproduction» and was troubling in all manner of ways, not least because it was unclear whether I was witnessing a naïve attempt to really speak about the renewal of American culture, or a cynical undertaking to destroy the whole enterprise from within.

«Nestlé's attempt to wrap itself in the messages of World Breastfeeding Week and the First 1000 Days is terribly cynical, but is also a measure of the success of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in protecting breastfeeding and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in promoting it.

I am forced to believe that your participation in the program is a cynical move on your part to improve your image in the international community, an image which is constantly marred by your unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes and other widely publicized immoral acts (ie your recent attempts to exploit the impoverished Ethiopian government).