Sentences with phrase «cynical effort by»
«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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The truly cynical might say the new attitude is an effort by the chairman to get himself back into the good graces of the government.
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.
«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.»
A rather trite, unnecessarily - complicated wartime romance in which the most cynical drunk in the world is persuaded, after getting a second chance with the love of his life, to sacrifice his happiness (and hers, but that's not really relevant) for the war effort, by tricking her into returning to her anti-Nazi activist husband and continuing her loveless sham of a marriage.
Julian Dennison (Paper Planes, Shopping) plays Ricky Baker, a rebellious, chubby, twelve - year - old foster thug - life wanna - be who ends up dumped by an exasperated social worker (House, Whale Rider) to a childless couple, kind - hearted Bella (Te Wiata, Housebound) and her cynical husband Hec (Neill, Escape Plan) a last - chance effort from the foster placement, out on a remote farm in rural New Zealand.
It's easy to feel cynical and even angry while reading «The Prize,» a stunning account of efforts by wealthy outsiders and ambitious politicians to fix Newark's failing public schools.
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.
The lying by AGW promoters about funding of «denialists» is typical of cynical non-factual sales efforts.
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).