Sentences with phrase «few attempts at»

I like the idea of a proper OS vs those few attempts at making a SteamOS portable (Steamboy,,, if that ever happened).

Despite the sometimes vivid criticism of the Court in the literature, it becomes visible that there are rather few attempts at countering the interpretative practice of the Court with an opposing normative theoretical framework of interpretation.

The artists of the mid-twentieth century had a few attempts at defining what it could be.

Lightning retains her stoic demeanor, and this starts to detract from the experience during the few attempts at breaking up the drama with humor.

After a few attempts at forming or joining game making teams he eventually released his first game by himself in 2015.

Immortal Redneck — Review Xbox One, PS4, PC There have been a few attempts at an FPS Rogue - like over the years but they have all fallen a little short in key areas.

My first few attempts at the last level have been rather poor, so we'll see if that happens.

On my first few attempts at playing the game I recruited a friend to come round, enjoy some beers and see who could produce the best movies.

The few attempts at humor fall flat on their face, and the squad banter is utterly lifeless.

As everyone would gather around together for meals, the guide would invariably offer a few attempts at some jokes to break the ice, but we were generally left alone to get to know the other guests.

A few attempts at this will help speed up the process.

For the first few attempts at this, Questrade managed to screw it up.

After a few attempts at this, I was finally able to refinance my private student loan with LendKey.

A stay - at - home mother from Parker, Colo., Wade had no ambition to be a published author and no real writing experience other than a few attempts at historical romance in the mid-90s.

This is a stout, old - fashioned mid-size pickup that makes few attempts at refinement, and that's just fine.

It hasn't helped that the first few attempts at invoking a parent trigger led to fierce hostility and feuding within schools, with parents turning on one another and accusations of harassment, intimidation and fraud flying on both sides of the trigger debate.

The main characters do a lot of talking, with few attempts at humor in their dialogue.

A few attempts at individual character work, but these guys are more or less chaotic good guys who are in a shady profession, but have enough heart to do the right thing.

There were a few attempts at new modes and features here and there, but nothing that particularly screamed «must have» until of course, 2017 rolled around with its jaw dropping new titles.

We see a few attempts at auditions — Tommy's efforts are always entertaining — and the trainwreck is already beginning.

The situations are realistic for the most part, and one gets the sense that even director Michael Caton - Jones (Memphis Belle, Basic Instinct 2) thought the film drags too much, as there are a few attempts at action that break the rhythm of the film, providing the worst scenes.

The movie is nothing more than a pandering and forgettable feelgood flick, and the few attempts at real drama (including the «shocking» flashbacks to Mickey's childhood) are far and outside, never coming anywhere near home plate.

A few attempts at wacky interludes (Bobcat Goldthwait cameos as the manager of a sleazy motel, Tom Green is a Rastafarian skate shop owner) fill in for plot when the foursome isn't trying to lie their way into various competitions, where teenage boys often come up to them and say «Dude, you guys are great!»

Keeping track of all those units in the heat of battle is no easy burden, and illusions of grandeur will quickly deflate after a few attempts at blindly throwing troops into a well fortified enemy position.

There are a few attempts at physical comedy, none of which come close enough to funny as to endanger an outbreak of laughter.

His first few attempts at «serious» filmmaking wound up as misguided, overly saccharine efforts like The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun and Always.

This includes minimal dessert and a few attempts at running.

In the best case, readers will stumble through a few attempts at reaching outside their circles, slowly building up enough courage to continue doing so until it becomes second nature.

• Afraid of Freezer Burn — During your first few attempts at freezing baby food, you may think it has freezer burn because you'll see ice crystals from on it.

After a few attempts at getting him to eat mushy peas, I finally gave up and didn't try again until he was nine months old.

Mayweather has taken a few attempts at counter-striking, but also hasn't landed cleanly yet.

I will never forget my first few attempts at scones baking — there are softer rocks holding up walls around the country.

Mind you, my first few attempts at making this bread was a total disaster.

He must have even made a few attempts at it, but was not able to come up with a head of Christ.

In the best case, there are a few attempts at providing a new metaphysical and epistemological model where events can exist without a cause, but that's an entirely different thing, which also needs a diferent physics.

Fewer attempts at vaginal delivery after Cesarean sections (VBAC).

Not exact matches

While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

At the same time, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has patted itself on the back highlighting a 36 percent decline in apprehensions from 2008 to 2010 due to fewer people attempting to cross the border.

What we have attempted to build at all of the Penske companies is a culture that focuses on a few common core principles that I believe help drive our success.

Here are a few lessons I learned from my first attempt at running a business, making my second time around much smoother.

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

Actually failing at anything the first few attempts doesn't really hurt the company's chances of success.

That said, some tasks felt sluggish, especially if I attempted more than a few at a time.

The bipartisan Senate plan would attempt to maintain TPS in return for ending or changing a «diversity» lottery program that has been aimed at allowing up to 50,000 people a year from countries with few emigres to the United States.

But companies have to make more than halfhearted attempts at collaboration: Instead, they're realizing only half of the value of collaboration by creating better ways to discuss ideas, but putting fewer of them in place.

With several members of the ECB Committee arguing for this action in the last few months, the real surprise came from Draghi refusing to rule out a rate cut into negative territory (interest rates are currently at 0.05 %) in an attempt to further weaken the euro.

If this is true, by the way, it means that attempts at implementing liberalizing reforms are successful mainly during periods of great global liquidity, and this might have implications for China, especially if over the next few years global central banks begin to withdraw the huge liquidity injections that have underpinned asset bubbles around the world.

After a few failed attempts at outright bans on the currency, including placing a block on LocalBitcoins in late 2016, Bitcoin use remains strong in Russia.

One of the articles on post truth politics said its naive for us to expect the media to «call foul» and penalize right wing parties for lying and rejecting all attempts at compromise, because the media won't do it (as Jean's op - ed in the Herald demonstrates), so we and the few progressive media outlets left in this country need to do it ourselves.

The sickness is on both sides, and the Church could stand to learn a few things from Hollywood's recent attempts at curing it.