Sentences with phrase «make at least an attempt»

Maybe we can't stay behind these borders anymore, maybe we have to stick our heads out and make at least an attempt to be a part of the rest of the world right now, while at the same time protecting our people.»

But, through my feelings of obligation to make at least an attempt at family bonding time, I sat there and tried to contribute.

Not exact matches

Almost all the annotations were at least attempting a close reading - they were genuinely, though imperfectly, trying to add context to the text and make it easier to understand.

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If you mark the items down, you can then make an attempt to finish them all — or at least a good portion of them.

I applaud McDonald's for at least making some attempts to get families to engage more in public, to put the phones down.

My Little Pony - owner Hasbro made a new acquisition approach to Mattel, after the two had made at least two prior attempts at a deal.

Healthy communication is essential to making long - distance relationships work, so make sure that you're at least attempting to form some sort of plan.

We don't know how far back Facebook's history of data on its users extends, how that data is stored and backed up, but this is one way to at least make an attempt at sticking it to the platform before you leave it forever.

I would have at least made an attempt to find equal represenation.

You are taking what he did say and massively misrepresenting it, portraying it according to your warped delusional belief system, in a failed attempt to make some seemingly important, at least to you, point.

The author above at least made an attempt at doing so about the myths in this article.

And until Calvinism does away with it's inherent Nestorianism (which reemerged recently when a group of Calvinists attempted to redefine the Trinity in order to make it compatible with their new doctrine of «complementarianism», you look pretty hypocritical saying that Catholic theology is «at least in parts heretical».

But if one self - proclaims as Christian, one is presumably at least making attempts to live these precepts, and feels genuine remorse when one fails to do so.

While I try to offer hope and a vision for the future, I make no attempt to resolve everything, and all of this seems just fine with my editor... at least so far.

The significance of this chapter (III) lies in its attempt to describe the human impression Jesus made upon people in a way clearly suggestive of the meaning Jesus has for faith, as if a human contact with Jesus were — at least potentially — an encounter with the kerygma.

Therefore at least an initial attempt to work upon the central problem in terms of specific problems should be made.

At least Brown and Carmichael are men who made a real choice, who did not even attempt a shabby reconciliation, and who saw clearly that violence is radically incompatible with faith in Jesus Christ.

Wouldn't he be more of hypocrite if he just stood on one side (of his beliefs) throwing stones at the other side without at least listening and making an attempt to understand.

If the U.S. had at least made some attempt to minimise any further alienation between itself and president amadenijad (sp?)

But this Christological function was not easily defended on rational grounds, at least if the attempt was made to interpret it in a full, organic sense.

Although Derrida is commonly read as either overthrowing or at least attempting to evade the effect of history and tradition, he made it clear just how much we are embedded in Western ways of thinking.

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

They make no attempt — at least none that I have heard — to show how these two fit together.

Indeed, it discredits, or at the very least makes suspect, any attempt by conservatives to introduce moral and religious considerations into «the public square»» as if morality and religion necessarily lead to such apocalyptic political conclusions.

Obviously we can not undo the process of «civilization» which has made us what we are, but at least we can make some attempt to see how it disarms and deludes us.

When there were contradictions in those materials, a reconciliation was effected, or at least attempted, through the use of the «different levels of interpretation», where the historical meaning, the moral meaning, the theological meaning, and the highly mystical meaning could be distinguished and an appropriate distribution made in the discussion of this or that biblical text.

Yet judging from my own abilities at least, the attempt to make that alleged acknowledgement explicit leads either to an obvious case of merely relative nonbeing, such as the black background of my imagination, or to an unfulfilled and apparently unfulfillable intention, such as that involved in the attempt to conceive of a round square.

In my paper on Anselm, an attempt was made, not only to spell out the full vocabulary needed for stating the — or at least a — ontological argument, but also to list in full the premises needed.

In this chapter I attempt only to illuminate some of the conditions that could give rise to civil religions, thus making plausible at least their existence.

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

The shouting throng at the entry — and even his enemies at the Temple cleansing who, however, make no attempt to interfere — either recognize or at least suspect in Jesus» person the Messiah - to - be.

Next, my first attempt at almond flour baking with carried with in a very strong aftertaste that I have (thankfully) not experienced since then, and a paleo chocolate cake I made last winter than contained an obscene amount of eggs and had the consistency of a quiche... What I am trying to say is that cake is not quite as universally beloved in the grain free world... at least not by bakers.

I have made at least 6 attempts with other paleo recipes and this is by far the best one — THANK YOU JOSH!!

We chat every Friday (or at least make every attempt to) over a cup of joe and catch up with the happenings of the week.

I've always made at least a half hearted attempt to skin chickpeas for hummus.

Making bread scares me but your approach makes me realize I should at least attempt it... plus your recipes make me crave them....

At least if you were here in San Francisco I could attempt to facilitate your weight gain with my chopped liver and chicken soup with knaidlach and home made Pastrami etc., Anyway David — inspite of myself — thanks for teaching me how to make a cornucopia of great treats.

So this year, I thought I could at least attempt to make something delicious that wasn't so terrible for my diet.

Hence, this attempt at making an oven - fried version, which will not make it to any healthy dish list, but at least satisfies one's annual craving for fried chicken without a whole lot of guilt.

The beauty of making our own almond milk at home is one I wish everyone would attempt at least once.

This would, on the surface at the very least, seem to be an attempt to frustrate the potential that Victoria's biggest milk business might make a full - blown auction of the contest for WCB.

Failing that, the Mountaineers will count on senior point guard Jevon Carter locking down his counterpart, National Player of the Year candidate Jalen Brunson, while delivering his third consecutive game with 20 or more points while making at least half of his shot attempts.

The Tigers will have a harder time taming Kansas's offense, which ranks fifth in Pomeroy's adjusted efficiency and includes three players who have taken 180 or more three - point attempts and made at least 40 % of them.

Simply attempting to approach a certain distribution is not what made certain teams good — success is at least a partial result of both staying healthy and, again, having good players on rookie contracts.

A player who i was most disappointed with was sanchez, in the first half he made the same silly attempt of a cross at least four times, when monreal overlapped him and xhaka center for a pass, i was very disappointed..

Davis made 14 - of - 22 from the field and all 12 of his free throw attempts, and he became the youngest player since Shaquille O'Neal in 1993 to put up at least 40 points and 20 rebounds in a game.

That does not make it any easier to take though, although at least we did not throw the game away altogether, despite a late scare when Koscielny's attempted tackle looked to have let Zaha in on goal.

Whilst all other teams strengthen their ranks and at least attempt to make an effort to win things, we are told to expect only challenge for a top 4th position, and then expected to celebrate as if we won the league or champions league... Each year we tend horde our dead - wood / dead - weight who earn too much money for their return in this current climate.

However, They have had bad times so they do appreciate that the club / manager are at least making signings in an attempt to improve their fortunes of the pitch.