Sentences with phrase «frustrating as the attempt»

Nothing is so pathetic or so frustrating as the attempt to buy love or earn it.

Some students may become frustrated as they attempt to form a nuanced response to an open - ended question, particularly if their conclusions differ from those of their classmates».

Because teachers and administrators are held increasingly responsible for their students» mental health concerns, they may become bewildered and frustrated as they attempt to make sense of the complexities of behavioral issues.

The included tutorial is actually an embedded Youtube video that doesn't do a very good job of explaining the foundations of Planetary Annihilation, likely leaving new players frustrated as they attempt to figure out how to travel to other planets, or what certain things actually do.

Not exact matches

And, in the same way that the company's mattresses are attempting to disrupt an industry that it perceives as rife with excess SKUs, bloated prices, misleading sales and a frustrating retail experience, Casper's latest offerings — both of which were roughly 18 months in the making — are similarly no - nonsense, Sherwin says.

On the other hand, a true - believing Gnostic, oriented to a transcendental state of being, would have to see the computer as the means the Demiurge uses to imprison humans more securely in the world of time and matter in which the rigged environment frustrates any attempt at transcendental relief.

America, on the other hand, a strong tradition of respect for individuals as morally autonomous beings frustrates contemporary attempts to provide social solidarity and hence a socially informed sense of identity.

In recent years, intense focus on diversity and multiculturalism has accentuated racial, sexual, ethnic, class, and gender differences on campus, frustrating attempts to imagine the university as a cohesive moral unit with common ends.

I see the ambiguous talk as more of a challenge to people in church, one that would spark some thought about why they believe what they believe rather than an attempt to frustrate athiests.

In spite of the attempt of national leaders and the mass media to interpret the incident as a malicious terrorist act of disgruntled and frustrated people full of evil intensions, for many North Americans it was difficult, if not impossible, to accept it as non-religious.

As Freud made clear, effective therapists must frustrate the transference needs of their clients so that they can become aware of and change the growth - inhibiting way in which they are attempting to live in past relationships.

In her attempt to help her family get on a healthier snack track, Lisa became frustrated in her search for suitable options as most so - called «healthy» snacks she found contained as much sugar and processed starch as the regular commercial varieties.

This supposedly frustrated the club in its attempt to sign a centre back (before Mustafi) and so as a result the North Londoners were not willing to engage over any possible loan deal for Wilshere.

As Faulkner says, attempting to describe something that is made to be seen is a frustrating and largely futile exercise.

33 attempts at goal 75 % possession and lose comfortably it can only happen to arsenal it would be funny if not so tragic and I'm for one not buying the reason we lost is because of De Gea it's as much poor finishing as it is great goal keeping more aggression with the chances and you score I don't care who's in goal just smash it doesn't have to look pretty and I don't have to say very much about the defending it's schoolboy stuff all this talk about koscielny (bosscielny) never got that isn't physical enough to be an Adams or Campbell gets muscled off the ball far too often he's a good player don't get me wrong but he ain't world class and definitely isn't a leader I'd replace that whole back line and drop xhaka and ramsey for new signings yeah ramsey set up a nice goal but that kid can not hit water if he fell out of a boat his shooting is awful always sky's them very frustrating player.

The Premier League champions have thus far been frustrated in their attempts at adding to their forward line as they look to return to Champions League football.

Marseille have been searching for a new striker all summer only to be frustrated in their attempts to land their top targets and now they have switched their attentions to Perez as they look to beat Deportivo to his signature.

Any attempt to try to feel your uterus within your first trimester will thus leave you frustrated, but as time goes by since your baby will be growing rapidly, the uterus will be expanding to accommodate your baby's increasing size, and you will, therefore, be able to feel it soon.

I know it's frustrating to not do it as well as you like, but all these attempts will get you closer.

This leads to frustration for parents who are attempting to find quality child daycare, with 87 % of them describing the traditional search for child daycare as «difficult and frustrating».

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

«We see this as a subtle attempt by this intolerant Akufo - Addo administration to frustrate and thwart our efforts at organising this demonstration.

As my colleagues, Dana Rubinstein and Laura Nahmias, wrote on Tuesday, de Blasio has been frustrated by the politics of Albany when he's tried to push his progressive agenda at home and is attempting something of an end run.

His attempts to fix the problems to relieve Ghanaians of the long suffering were further frustrated by saboteurs within the energy sector who kept giving him false updates, thereby relaying the information to the people in order to be seen as a man who is not of his words (a lying president).

Vacco on Monday was frustrated as he has been for most of the hearing as school board members and othe witnesses declined to discuss the details of the executive session in question — saying it's an attempt to hamstring Paladino's effort to mount a defense.

Historians may look back on the Coalition as a bold but flawed attempt by Messrs Cameron and Osborne to frustrate the realignment of the Left of which Roy Jenkins dreamed: Mr Cameron's Sunday Times (#) article yesterday was a valiant attempt to keep it going.

However, it was learnt that Mimiko, and a prominent lawyer had allegedly met Akeredolu in an attempt to frustrate Olanusi from receiving his entitlement as a former deputy governor.

«They have resorted to cheap blackmail as it is becoming obvious that the efforts of Ali Modu Sheriff at frustrating every attempt to impose a non party member as our presidential nominee is beginning to gain the attention of well - meaning members.

I think very many people find that frustrating, that at Prime Minister's Questions there's often very little attempt made to answer the questions at all, things are very partisan, hugely political, but as I said the tone is set by the Prime Minister, the event reflects his or her personality, and our job as opposition politicians, we can't set that tone.

The angry students described the decision by the authorities as a diabolical attempt to frustrate them.

My office receives calls, letters and email regularly from residents who are frustrated with the continual damage being done to their vehicles and have expressed a real fear that a deadly accident will occur as drivers attempt to avoid potholes and sometimes lose control of their vehicles.»

The Republican Caucus, led by Minority Leader John J. Mills, has grown continually frustrated by Legislators and opportunists who have attempted to ignore the will of the people and as a result hindered efforts to present a fair map in a timely manner that would allow interested candidates to become involved in the process.

But as Ben Bradshaw MP must have seen on Tuesday night, any decent attempt to play ball with the new leadership seems doomed to end in the frustrating realisation that it is hopeless.

In his petition, the minister said he ran into trouble with Ajimobi because he frustrated the governor's attempt to remove unjustly the APC Chairman in the Ido Local Government Area of the state, who he simply identified as Pastor Akintokun.

Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, on Thursday accused Olukoya Ogungbeje, counsel to Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike better known as Evans, of attempting to frustrate the trial...

Still, the frontrunners» political differences have hardened some Democrats and liberal groups outside of the official DNC structure, frustrating the party's attempt to move on from the fissure of the 2016 primary even as both frontrunners try to tamp down the idea of a rift.

But the Transparency International (Nigeria) and a chieftain of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, among others, described the judgment as sad and a calculated attempt to frustrate the war against corruption in the country.

It is sad and shameful that a frustrated and disgraceful group with Wike and Fayose as the key actors should attempt to tarnish the hard - earned reputation of Amaechi just because he collaborated with other patriotic Nigerians to oust a regime that is now exposed as the most corrupt ever in the history of Nigeria.

The group has described the LI as a deliberate and unreasonable effort by the Council to frustrate their attempts to gain...

Diverse insinuations have also trailed the incident as some quarters attributed it to attempt aimed at frustrating the supplementary election slated for tomorrow, others said it may have been as a result of indiscriminate bush burning by some youths on hunting expedition.

As I have experienced at first hand as a researcher, attempts to reproduce others» published findings can be expensive and frustratinAs I have experienced at first hand as a researcher, attempts to reproduce others» published findings can be expensive and frustratinas a researcher, attempts to reproduce others» published findings can be expensive and frustrating.

Yes, it stops all sorts of unwanted interlopers, as well as frustrating attempts to get drugs into the brain via the bloodstream.

But high - flying volcanic debris frustrated space physicists» attempts to use Jupiter's powerful magnetic field as a probe of Io's interior.

My first cookbook was an attempt at that magic wand, and while I got many wonderful thank you notes, I got just as many notes from those who were frustrated and not feeling better despite their efforts at changing their diet.

But, as does anything in life, calorie counting has its downsides too, namely said daily work — it's a sufferable chore at best, or perhaps more often it's an insurmountably frustrating attempt that's given up on after a few days and fist fulls of pulled out hair.

Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

Their first scene together has a brisk, parry - and - thrust rhythm, as Silvia, hiding behind a lock of hair gone strategically astray, frustrates Tobin's attempts to figure her out.

«God's Pocket» will be directed by John Slattery, who you know as «Mad Men»» s silver fox Roger Sterling but who is making the move to directing (having helmed several excellent episodes of the series in which he stars), adapting a Pete Dexter novel about Mickey (Hoffman), whose attempts to move on after the suspicious, and not unwelcome, death of his unstable stepson are frustrated by a local reporter with a hunch.

Figuring it all out as you go along can be part of the fun, but more often that not it frustrated and obfuscated my attempts to refine my performance.

The Solo Mode, a mode that has you playing through each of the boards while following Bowser's attempt to get away with the Mini Stars, comes off as unimaginative, and the incredible emphasis on luck is frustrating as winning is required to continue on.