Sentences with phrase «desperate attempts from»
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Simply put, as part of a desperate attempt to keep America out of recession and himself out of the ranks of unemployed Americans, Obama has torn a page from the questionable Keynesian play book and just asked his political opponents for permission to toss the mother of all Hail Mary passes.
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But while kids acknowledged how intimately tied to their phones they are, they also told Freitas of their desperate — and often unsuccessful — attempts to get away from them.
Popular opinion suggests any slowdown in resource demand from China, which is becoming more desperate in its attempts to revive its flagging economy, will be especially bad for a commodity - dependent economy such as Canada's.
Ever since the first presidential debate, the Obama campaign has suffered from the media interpreting everything they do as a desperate and probably misguided attempt to deal with the consequences of....
He cut through man's trachea and esophagus which detached victim's mouth from the rest of the body, yet he's still making desperate attempts to scream and all the noise is coming out of his neck.
Why do we spend so much time bouncing around from job to job, organization to organization — all in a desperate attempt to escape the very thing that makes these athletes legendary?
The shop started to go under and, in a desperate attempt to pull it back, I borrowed # 25,000 from my sister.
(13) Neurotic patterns of relating are desperate attempts to prevent oneself from being overwhelmed by this most painful of feelings.
This is a desperate attempt to recapture the masses as they move away from dogma and belief in supernatural things.
Fact is this modern trend to turn these «stories» from actual event to simple moral tales is just a desperate attempt at keeping this nonsense alive.
Like most of the upstart league's gestures, the gift combined a gleam of original thinking with a desperate attempt to wrest attention from the NBA.
But wanting them out just seems like a desperate attempt by the AKBs to deflect blame away from arsene wenger.
Goal have reported that the player's partner Daniela Martins is desperate to leave Turkey and is attempting to undermine her husband's desire to stay at Fener in light of considerable interest from China.
He finally did this against Aston Villa in April with his introduction met with ironic cheers from Chelsea fans who chanted «give the ball to Pato» at every opportunity in a desperate attempt to get some value for money.
West Ham come into the game having lost four out of six Premier League games from a relatively benign set of fixtures and now embark on a run of so - called «winnable» games (including today's) in an attempt to demonstrate there might be something to the season beyond a desperate survival battle.
Stoke had strikers Crouch, Berahino and Jese on the pitch in a desperate attempt to grab a winner and there was a warning sign they were susceptible at the other end when Theo Walcott nearly finished from Tosun's pass.
That would make things too easy, and stop us from amusing them with our desperate attempts to please them.
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.
«This is a desperate attempt by a flailing campaign that wants to turn the attention away from their own candidate's record.»
«The state GOP's sad attempts to change the subject demonstrates just how desperate they are to distract from the state of their own flailing and chaotic party,» added Geoff Berman, Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Committee.
Venezuela's move looks more like a desperate attempt to divert attention away from it's current dismal economic state, and to associate it's currency with the wild speculation taking place around bitcoin right now.
«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.
Farage's appearance at a Monday lunchtime fringe event had been erased from the official conference guide in a desperate attempt to downplay its importance.
«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.
«Dan Donovan's endless lies only reflect the desperate state of his campaign and are a sorry attempt to distract voters from his anti-Trump voting record in Congress,» Joe Shikhman, a spokesman for Grimm, told the Advance.
State GOP Chairman Ed Cox called the effort «a desperate attempt» by Cuomo to refocus the public's attention away from the Percoco trial.
It therefore appears to us in the minority from these and other factors that EOCO's actions are nothing more than a desperate attempt to hound the Deputy Commissioner out of office,» the statement added.
Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif called the Bruno donations «absolutely 100 % legal» and dismissed the complaint as «a desperate attempt to distract people from the fact that the entire Senate Democratic campaign organization is in disarray.»
«This is a last desperate cover - up attempt from a dishonest candidate whose extremism has cost her votes.
«In a desperate attempt to distract from her longtime close relationship with her «pal» Al Franken, she calculatingly decided to finally throw Bill Clinton under the bus now that they are no longer an asset to her quenchless ambition.»
SCRIBA, N.Y. - The state Public Service Commission said today it is working on plans to provide financial assistance to the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in a desperate attempt to keep the plant from shutting down.
Bill de Blasio campaign manager Bill Hyers slammed Quinn for the move one week before the primary election, calling it a «desperate attempt to distract attention from her eight - year record of standing with Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly as the overuse and abuse of stop - and - frisk exploded.»
Murphy rejected that charge: «Sounds like a desperate attempt to distract from their strategy of wholesale rejections of votes from minority - heavy areas,» he said.
«Central New Yorkers won't be fooled by his desperate attempts to hide from his radical and well documented position on this issue.»
A blog post from the Independent Petroleum Association of America called the document release a «desperate move» and the latest in a coordinated attempt to hurt the fossil fuel industry.
Andy thought he was only a few years from retirement and the golf course when his newspaper gave a severance package to him and 40 others in a desperate attempt to stay afloat in a world of new media.
For more than a year, world news has reported desperate refugees, most from war - torn Syria, dying in their attempts to reach Europe.
It does not follow that we need to imagine that morality took its start from a desperate attempt to form a social union from selfish individualists: «far from being originally solitary, the earliest human beings were heirs to a long, complex tradition of group life».
Ray and Mickey make a desperate attempt to get Terry released from prison after discovering he's killed an Aryan and his life is in danger.
Ray Donovan, Season 3, Episode 3: Ray and Mickey make a desperate attempt to get Terry released from prison.
When bullied teen Andy Strucker (Percy Hynes White) is pulled into a locker room by his tormentors, his psychokinetic powers manifest in a desperate attempt to protect himself from their abuse.
After they're all picked off, only Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is left to rescue pseudo daughter and lone survivor of the human holocaust Newt (Carrie Henn) and attempt a desperate escape from LV - 426.
What begins as a desperate attempt to win Libby back becomes an opportunity to win back his self - respect, but everyone from the gambling buddies of his best friend Gordon (Dylan Moran) to Dennis» landlord Maya (India de Beaufort) is placing bets that Dennis falls on his face.
Sadly, scenes from Newsies are overemployed therein in a desperate - feeling attempt to lend veracity to the piece.
It features a lengthy campaign, running players through dozens of missions spanning the time between Halo 3 and 4, and with the upgrade from smartphone to console it packs a new multiplayer mode where 2 players fight together against hordes of Flood in a desperate attempt to survive.
Adapted from a 1982 French graphic novel, Snowpiercer drops us in the year 2031, 17 years after a desperate attempt to curb global warming instead resulted in a new ice age.
It's here that she receives a desperate note from her senile Aunt Martha (Riva), complaining that a nurse has been attempting to lock her away in a retirement home.
In their fourth appearance on the big screen, Alvin, Simon and Theodore (voice of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney) hit the road in a desperate attempt to keep their manager / adoptive father Dave (Jason Lee) from replacing them with a wife.
It's clear that he suffers from substance abuse early on, but his desperate attempt to track down more hydromorphone feels like it comes from a different movie.
These «oh wait» moments ring a clear signal of his inability to save the unfocused screenplay from itself and a blinding sign of his desperate attempts to course correct too late in the game.