Sentences with phrase «cynical effort»
The phrase "cynical effort" means a insincere or distrustful attempt to achieve something. Full definition
«This deal looks like one more cynical effort by the IDC to cement their power and avoid being challenged at election time, while presenting themselves as the «real» Democrats in Albany.
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Maybe I'm too cynical, but the best sense I can make of the administrations decisions requires me to presuppose the predominance of (1) dreamy human rights internationalism, and (2) cynical efforts to keep the Middle East out of domestic politics by doing whatever it takes to kick the various cans down the road.
Cynthia Nixon, who is waging a Democratic primary campaign against Cuomo, criticized the measure as a cynical effort to shore up progressive support.
So in order to steal the victory away from the grass roots and protect some of their credibility they are working behind the scenes in a cynical effort.
«Sadly, he seems oblivious to the state of affairs evidenced by his cynical efforts to give away even more tax payer dollars hobnobbing in Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood.»
So is Run All Night just a cynical effort to repackage the tired tropes of the Taken franchise?
«Bloomberg's proposals are a cynical effort to lock communities into permanent changes while ignoring community voices...» de Blasio said at the time.
It's just absurd to pretend that the Florida proposal was anything more than another cynical effort to further expand charter schools and privatization of public education under the guise of «parent empowerment.»»
They tell me the cynical efforts to roll back education freedom in Arizona will fail.
The elephant in the room is pushback on the part of management, misrepresentation of what unions do by so - called reformers and, most importantly, a cynical effort to break the unions and reduce their power.
Its part of this cynical effort to discredit scientists, confuse the public, to intimidate scientists.
It's a cynical effort to put forward disingenuous arguments, often to attack the integrity of the scientists themselves to try to discredit their findings, not because of a belief that the science is wrong but because of the threat that the science opposes to vested interests.
Using the tag «renewable energy» in a cynical effort to «justify» the suffering caused to the health and well - being of hard - working, tax - paying citizens by incessant turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound is nothing short of monstrous (see our post here).
STT can't wait to hear the cynical efforts from wind worshippers to explain and spin away the hundreds of avoidable deaths, that will inevitably occur, during Britain's fast looming, dark and bitter winter — when wind power output collapses; the grid along with it; and little old ladies freeze to death in their unlit homes.