Sentences with phrase «desperate attempt by»

The attempt to paint Jared Loughner as a right - winger appears to be an altogether too desperate attempt by sections of the left - liberal commentariat to distract from this fact and settle the scorecard.

This sure seems like nothing more than a desperate attempt by George Bush to salvage a presidency that will go down in history as one of the worst.

Is this a desperate attempt by the Royal Academy to cash in on Monet's name, following on from many other exhibitions that featured him?

Dipping into your 401 (k) account never really makes sense and is generally a last and desperate attempt by many to get out of a debt trap.

Let's just frame it as a desperate attempt by the publishers to get away from the wholesale model, which was allowing the monopsony incumbent (Amazon) to extort ridiculous discounts from their suppliers.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, said: «This is a desperate attempt by the flailing Tory campaign to undo the damage that has been caused by David Cameron's chaotic exam changes.

«This is a desperate attempt by the Tories to try to overshadow their failures on school standards,» said Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt.

The raid on the Belgian port was a desperate attempt by the Royal Navy's Dover Patrol to stop German submarines wreaking havoc among allied shipping.

The film follows the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Kevin Spacey) to pay the ransom.

All the Money in the World: Follows the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom.

All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Kevin Spacey) to pay the ransom.

«This is a desperate attempt by Julie Killian to continue her Trump - style smear campaign.

The deal, currently before the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, appears to be another desperate attempt by the government to contain Ghana's ever biting power crisis which, according to analysts, continues to suffocate business and household...

«Our Client hopes that the ongoing scandalization of his name is not a ploy by the Commission to give effect to the desperate attempt by the federal government to intimidate him and destroy his credibility and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as other opposition leaders as the general elections approach in the pretext of war against corruption,» he wrote.

The national secretary of the party, in a statement in Abuja said the call was a desperate attempt by the PDP to return Nigeria to the path of reckless fiscal policies.

The PDP said it was alerting Nigerians to the commencement of what it described as a desperate attempt by the APC - led Federal Government to turn Nigeria into a one - party state.

«This is a desperate attempt by the Venditto campaign to distract voters from the real issues of property taxes, fee increases and the budget deficits that he and the Republicans supported and created.

The IRS brouhaha is merely a desperate attempt by the Republicans to find an issue that will help them regain control of the U.S. Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016.

«This is a desperate attempt by a flailing campaign that wants to turn the attention away from their own candidate's record.»

It is a desperate attempt by some faceless individuals to denigrate the Vice President of the country», he said

Labour peer Lord Adonis criticises plan as desperate attempt by May to boost fragile position in upper chamber

According to him, the claim was a desperate attempt by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Akufo - Addo government, to divert attention from the events at BOST, with respect to the 5 million litres contaminated fuel.

It's a silly and desperate attempt by Big Food to respond to the star - power that has Katie Couric appearing all over the mainstream media spreading a message that the food industry doesn't want you to hear.

But wanting them out just seems like a desperate attempt by the AKBs to deflect blame away from arsene wenger.

This is a desperate attempt by the Catholic Church to bring the Son of God down to our level to sugar - coat sin.

Luhmann suggests, not entirely facetiously, that the development of Christianity itself may be seen as a desperate attempt by religious specialists to survive the invention of the written word.

The battle was a desperate attempt by the Germans to rapidly and decisively turn the Allied advance into a retreat to the Atlantic.

«It is just the latest in a string of desperate attempts by the Tories to portray themselves as animal - friendly,» she said.

«Such reports dwell on the desperate attempts by terrorists to use Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) or suicide bombs to sustain their scare tactics and continue to spread terror in the minds of the people.

Days at the retreat are spent sitting inside a giant meditation hall, totally barren except for the ground, which is scattered with pillows, blankets, and meditation stools — desperate attempts by students to find at least minimal comfort during the long days of meditation spent sitting on the floor.

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The launch of the bitcoin-esque cryptocurrency, called the petro, is viewed by many onlookers as a somewhat desperate attempt to secure cash amid an unprecedented economic meltdown.

Later on April 17 came Global Times editor Hu Xijin's message that the move by an «afraid and desperate» US is an attempt to derail China's 5G progress.

It seemed Cohn hadn't given up quite yet, and in fact he was planning to make a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind by bringing leaders of industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is making a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind on imposing the tariffs by bringing leaders of industries that will be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

(13) Neurotic patterns of relating are desperate attempts to prevent oneself from being overwhelmed by this most painful of feelings.

In a desperate attempt to undo what they have wrought, government leaders now promise a full eighteen months of parental leave, thus attempting to save their society by smuggling through the hack door what they so ruthlessly shoved out the front: mothers at home.

It is characterized by refusal to accept this break up of traditional integration and the relative autonomy of society and politics, and a desperate attempt to bring them again under the tutelage of religion.

While conceding that there is «some basis» for concerns about «the negative social effects of globalization», it contends that it is «not true that globalization is an overwhelming supra - national force that has largely usurped national policy autonomy...» It asserts that «national policies can, and should, give priority to mitigating negative effects on globalization» of financial markets), and the desperate and helpless attempts by the national regimes to come to grips with the soaring unemployment situation in the face of the continuing onslaught of the «supra - national» financial markets, the above bland assertion about «national policies» has an air of unreality about it.

Now the fans are desperate to know whether it is yet another false dawn, or if in fact the Gunners have genuinely turned a corner in their attempts to return to the glory days when teams — all teams — were afraid of being blown away by Wenger's charges.

The ever expanding mass of football statistics are most frequently used by the desperate in attempting to prove a point about their favourite player (why Noble is better than Kouyate or vice versa) or to pad out column inches in printed and online media (just like this one!)

According to him, the NPP led by its flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo only engaged in political gimmicks in their «desperate attempt to win the November 7 general elections.»

Raucous shouting matches during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons; smearing and jeering by the overwhelmingly right - of - centre popular press; and desperate attempts to give inconsequential policy distinctions more importance than they deserve are features of the landscape.

Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has said that the latest media propaganda by the self - styled Unity Forum of the All Progressives Congress is a desperate attempt to rubbish the result of the ward congresses conducted on Sunday.

Labour's Sadiq Khan said a smear campaign by the Tory leadership - which repeatedly attempted to link his Muslim faith with Islamic extremism - had been «negative, desperate and divisive».

«It is obviously desperate and hypocritical to attempt to install a personal friend by ignoring the nomination of two women who are beyond qualified for the post,» Barry Weinberg, the executive director of the Manhattan party, said in an e-mail to party leaders.

«Eliot Spitzer's decision to launch the first negative attack ad of this campaign is a desperate attempt to mislead voters by a flailing candidate,» she said.

In a statement by her media adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, the ex-minister who described such move as a joke said «the malicious attempt by Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana to mix Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala up in issues that have nothing to do with her in his letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) adding that it is a desperate joke by an integrity challenged charlatan (ICC).»

«There was the case of bribery introduced by the Obasanjo regime in the desperate attempt to remove Speaker Ghali Umar Na'Abba from office then.

«The residents of the 46th Senate deserve better, and won't be fooled by this desperate attempt to smear George Amedore with misleading ads.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox called the effort «a desperate attempt» by Cuomo to refocus the public's attention away from the Percoco trial.