Sentences with phrase «disguised attempt»

So does self - sacrifice mean turning yourself into a martyr in a disguised attempt to get what you want?

This is a thinly disguised attempt to get Albany to pick up pieces of local budget costs problems.

«This is a thinly disguised attempt by Michael Formento to tie the hands of the park district, «Campbell said.

Our usual inside Under The Hammers sources were too busy taking out the bins to either confirm or deny the reports which have, in any case, been made up in a poorly disguised attempt to get visitors to the site.

It is a thinly disguised attempt by the Evangelical Christian movement to present their religious beliefs as such.

This is clearly a thinly disguised attempt to move into Syria and remove the Assad Government, which would enable the U.S. Government to achieve the dual purpose of moving forward with the pipeline that Big Oil wants to put through Syria and to consolidate U.S. military control around the Middle East.

Your call for grace in this instance bears a striking resemblance to Doug Pagitt's call for generosity, and both smack of disingenuous concern for the greater good meant to disguise your attempts to cover your friend's ass.

Wigg had said, among other things, that «the Jockey Club's discipline is so soft that the rules are ignored and derided;» that «jockeys have developed the business of «covering up» or disguising an attempt to lose into something close to an art;» that «bookmakers, as a profession, are not very intelligent — neither was the dinosaurus and the dinosaurus got stuffed; if they are not careful so will the bookmakers, for the same reason;» and that jockeys «are not as fully developed as the average young male of the same age, so it is quite likely that if their bodies are not fully developed, then their IQs will not be very high, either.»

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

c. Employed ostensible joint venture meetings to disguise their attempts to raise retail e-book prices;

Often, Stettheimer's energetic, richly symbolic, and vibrantly colored scenes of daily life of the rich and glamorous are thinly disguised attempts at satire; such as this brilliant painting of beach revelers at a segregated resort in New Jersey, where a vivacious mixed - race crowd parties without a care in the world.

Going back many years Amnesty International reports are filled with cases of individuals around the world who have been convicted on terrorism and other national security - related charges which are clearly disguised attempts to punish critics, stifle opposition and target particular religious or ethnic minorities.

Not exact matches

His company, known for its one - day building blowouts held in hotel ballrooms, never attempted to disguise its involvement in what was clearly labelled a «sponsored series,» he says.

«I think that this transaction was deliberately structured to attempt to disguise self - dealing,» tax lawyer Marc Owens told STAT News.

«His misguided attempts to shift blame onto (the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.) or other state business groups are no more than a smokescreen to disguise his office's culpability.»

«His misguided attempts to shift blame onto WEDC or other state business groups are no more than a smokescreen to disguise his office's culpability.»

According to, Wikipedia, Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Worse still, marketers sabotage the trust they aim to build by attempting to disguise salesy content as educational.

ID is a purposeful repackaging of Christian creationism in an attempt to disguise it as science so that they could slip it back into public science classrooms.

Despite the attempts of the creeds, which we shall consider later, to balance his divinity and his humanity, the real subject of the gospels has seemed like a god in human disguise.

Just another attempt to disguise religion as something more innocuous.

So they offered little direction: «We make no attempt to disguise our bafflement.»

We have the opportunity to read about her own life in which she makes no attempt to disguise her actions and with which perhaps many girls can empathise.

Because ancient man did not draw such a clear line of distinction between myth and history, it was possible for the myth of the end - time to hold a particular kind of reality for him which it can not hold for us, and there is no point in attempting to disguise this difference.

But Ana is in love with a certain marquis, and Juan, knowing this, disguises himself as her beloved and attempts a nocturnal assault on her virtue, of the sort that had worked so well with Isabela.

Two women are on the run from the FBI after they disguised themselves as nuns and attempted to rob a...

Doubtless it is absurd to dwell on death as such; it is equally absurd to attempt to deny it, to cover it up, to pretend that it is not there — one thinks of the pathetic way in which contemporary funeral customs so often try to disguise what as a matter of obvious truth a funeral is all about.

And there was no attempt to disguise those disagreements which emerged as the discussions wore on.

I couldn't help but LOL (and then be super excited while attempting to disguise my joy from C).

The attempt to make a Grenache wine for the first harvest didn't work out they way they'd planned, but was a blessing in disguise.

In what, some of you might find as an attempt to improve the team by bringing big names like Ozil and Sanchez, I see a method of increasing business in disguise.

For Gascoigne's free - kick, Arsenal at least had a flimsy 2 +1 - man wall which stood about 15 yards away and it was in footballing terms «dead centre» and so the disguise of a cross was eliminated but the audacity of attempting to score from so far out was the element of surprise.

My husband attempted to disguise his concern with amusement.

If you have a white noise machine - or a fan like I have - that will help disguise the zipper noise if you attempt the «nurse and run» technique.

As identified within the interview, Macmillan does not attempt to disguise the extent to which she believes history is often made by individuals, arguing that «there were those individual, especially Wilhelm himself and Bethmann, who had the power to decide between war and peace and who in the end were persuaded that war was the better option» (p. 523).

It was reported that the suicide bomber who disguised as a worshipper attempted to enter the nearby Masalacin Kofar Shehu Councillor (mosque) when Muslim faithful were performing their morning prayers, but the IEDs he was carrying exploded few metres to the mosque leaving the suicide bomber dead with few others who were about to enter the mosque injured.

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

De Blasio called a new TWU TV ad campaign blaming him for the underfunding of New York City's state - controlled mass transit system «absolutely misleading» and a «pitiful attempt to disguise where the real responsibility for the MTA lies.»

In this case, however, the choice of the mayor as a subject seems to have been made easier by virtue of the fact that his dealings with party committees are the only instance in recent memory in which a fundraising effort openly engaged in each of the types of activity that Sugarman's memo argued were suggestive of an attempt to use parties to «evade contribution limits and to disguise the true names of the contributors.»

Among other things, he unlawfully solicited and obtained client referrals worth millions of dollars in exchange for SILVER's official acts, and attempting to disguise this money as legitimate outside income earned from his work as a private lawyer.

«This defendant not only stole from the clients of his law practice, but then stole millions from his charity in an attempt to disguise that theft,» Schneiderman in a statement.

And in what looked like a cunning attempt to disguise his full retreat, the Brexit secretary also offered up a couple of amazing alternative newslines while chatting to Nick Ferrari.

He's accused of attempting to disguise money he sent to a former staffer of his who left the state payroll when accused of sexually harassment.

... The expert must attempt to «undo» the disguise before proceeding with an analysis of similarities and differences.»

Then they attempted to disguise the donor DNA in order to trick the recipient species into believing the genome had always belonged in the cell.

Such mapping as was attempted during the second half of the 19th century was conducted largely by British and Russian agents sneaking into the region disguised as holy men and scribbling hasty sketches on pieces of paper hidden in their shoes.

Prior attempts to measure the proton's g - factor were not precise as they were restricted to probing protons in atoms, where orbiting electrons disguise the proton's properties.

The injuries sustained in my suicide attempt actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Floyd changes levels with the jab in an attempt to disguise any patterns in his punch selection, in each of these examples shown above Floyd doesn't follow - up on the jab, the purpose is to purely keep his opponent from getting near him.

The «badness», so to speak, is merely an attempt to protect themselves with a disguise.