Sentences with phrase «explicit attempt»

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

For Reyes, an idealist whose projects affect real change and are often explicit attempts to improve the society around him, a world free of guns is a human right, and a utopian ideal to which we should all aspire.

Of these countries, only Peru and Indonesia make explicit attempts to define carbon rights in national legislation.

The app, called Messenger Kids, is Facebook's first explicit attempt at reaching users below the age of 13, which is the minimum age for creating a normal Facebook account.

In order to do that he must follow through with the mandates set forth by the Bank of Japan by taking various «Measures Aimed at Overcoming Deflation,» and setting the stage for «powerful easing,» including what seems to be an explicit attempt to weaken the yen.

In each instance, Dzeko was taking a long ball directly from Woj, usually receiving the pass 35 - 45 yards away from Fiorentina's goal, indicating an explicit attempt to play the long ball, extend the Viola defense, and hold up play so Roma's wide players could advance and exploit the newfound space on the flank.

A David Miliband victory would also undermine the fight against the explicit attempt to marginalise / destroy the trade union link to Labour.

While not exactly an explicit attempt to increase turnout, the Independence issue in Scotland caused a massive increase in political activity.

But that «last customer» line plays like an old Schwarzenegger kiss - off, and the lawless killing is followed by equal - time commentary from black and white talk - radio hosts — the film's explicit attempt to defuse any racist overtones.

The brief montage / documentary was an explicit attempt to recognize what many analysts, in the media and in academia, have been saying of the Weinstein story since it broke in October: that sexual abuse is not just about sex; it's about power.

Education reform without an explicit attempt to dismantle the sources of inequality isn't a moon shot toward justice; it is simply a maladjustment to injustice.

I had high hopes that Readium SDK could perform this role for us, but its licensing conditions are an explicit attempt to decommodify open source code.

It is an explicit attempt to prevent the commoditisation of a feature that would benefit many more people and businesses if it were a commodity.

What they were talking about was that they didn't have every line of dialog for the whole game written, and they didn't have explicit attempts / answers / special dialog for every puzzle written.

Certainly, any explicit attempts by policymakers to improve the competitive position of their own industries could risk running afoul of global trade agreements.

In the UK we have poured money into wind and now solar in an explicit attempt to get down our energy - generating CO2 emissions.