Sentences with phrase «not desperate attempts»

This isn't a desperate attempt to stay relevant, says Maharaj, but a new use for an old industry: «Commercial publishing still has the working capital to produce a gigantic print run and spin up a marketing campaign.»

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One wonders if Facebook's embarrassing social - engineering experiment last spring, in which users» feeds were edited in an attempt to lift their moods, wasn't a desperate ploy to keep people coming back.

It's not about trying to implement the latest desperate attempt in a long, sad series of stopgap measures that simply adds complexity to the current code base and impedes any real progress.

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is:

Taking into consideration WeWork's Finance Chief's recent statements about not making a profit, seeing WeWork's desperate attempts at attracting new clients to fill up its spaces, and Neumann's claimed sale of shares, the question is: Is WeWork headed in the same direction as Ouvah?

It seemed Cohn hadn't given up quite yet, and in fact he was planning to make a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind by bringing leaders of industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

Your argument, which is a common one among believers, is nothing more than a desperate attempt to avoid admitting something consistent with all the evidence because you just don't want to believe it.

Pretty simple they didn't know it and you have just decided it descrbes the big bang in a desperate attempt ro reconcile the two.

If they denounce their intellectual adversaries in the harshest of terms, can we not see in this a desperate attempt to beat back the enemy that lurks within — within, that is, Kurzweil and Leibowitz themselves?

Reading between the lines, we can say that the flood was a desperate attempt to gain the power that humans have, but cherubim do not have.

Luhmann suggests, not entirely facetiously, that the development of Christianity itself may be seen as a desperate attempt by religious specialists to survive the invention of the written word.

While conceding that there is «some basis» for concerns about «the negative social effects of globalization», it contends that it is «not true that globalization is an overwhelming supra - national force that has largely usurped national policy autonomy...» It asserts that «national policies can, and should, give priority to mitigating negative effects on globalization» of financial markets), and the desperate and helpless attempts by the national regimes to come to grips with the soaring unemployment situation in the face of the continuing onslaught of the «supra - national» financial markets, the above bland assertion about «national policies» has an air of unreality about it.

After four months of desperate attempts to save my faith, I came to the sad conclusion that my faith was based on an ancient superstition; a superstition not based on lies, but based on the sincere but false beliefs of uneducated, superstitious, first century peasants.

That flash of boob felt like a desperate attempt to ensure Sex didn't get shut out.

why those tactics a desperate attempt in trying to convince one or two players who might not even be with us come next season that they will get playing time?

If he wasn't forcing Jordan Pickford to scramble across his goalmouth in a desperate attempt to alleviate the danger, he was threading the ball through the eye of a needle for one of his team - mates to exploit.

Signed because Mourinho didn't favour him in his Chelsea side, Moyes used the winter transfer window to buy Mata in a desperate attempt to appease the fans after a truly abysmal summer and a poor start to the club's Premier League defence.

We bought this in a desperate attempt to get our 3 yr old son interested in potty training since he wouldn't sit on a regular potty or toilet for more than a few seconds.

Lil Helper DID NOT send me these products free of charge to facilitate a review... after having to change the sheets on my son's bed in the middle of the night, every night for weeks on end, I purchased these products at full price in a desperate attempt to gain back precious minutes of sleep in the middle of the night.

On the flip side, don't try to «buy» your step - children's love or try desperate attempts to get them to like you.

It's a silly and desperate attempt by Big Food to respond to the star - power that has Katie Couric appearing all over the mainstream media spreading a message that the food industry doesn't want you to hear.

The group observed that Mr. Naabu's incessant accusation and desperate attempts of inciting Konkombas against the current government will not be tolerated any longer and, therefore, must put a seal cap to them.

«The residents of the 46th Senate deserve better, and won't be fooled by this desperate attempt to smear George Amedore with misleading ads.

«Our Client hopes that the ongoing scandalization of his name is not a ploy by the Commission to give effect to the desperate attempt by the federal government to intimidate him and destroy his credibility and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as other opposition leaders as the general elections approach in the pretext of war against corruption,» he wrote.

He said that any attempt to rig the 2019 presidential election by some «cabals» desperate for Buhari's second term at the detriment of Nigerians would not only fail, but also bring ruin to those plotting it.

«Central New Yorkers won't be fooled by his desperate attempts to hide from his radical and well documented position on this issue.»

It does not follow that we need to imagine that morality took its start from a desperate attempt to form a social union from selfish individualists: «far from being originally solitary, the earliest human beings were heirs to a long, complex tradition of group life».

I also talk to them, sometimes in praise, other times in a desperate attempt to convince them that it is not, in fact, in their best interest to eat crayons... again.

And, if you're one of the millions of people who feel like you haven't quite discovered your purpose yet, it can be incredibly frustrating to see some people off creating the lives of their dreams while the rest of us change jobs, relationships, and locations in desperate attempts to finally figure out what we're here to do.

In a desperate attempt to heal himself, he began formulating his own supplements using probiotic strains, which were not well known or researched at that time.

«I found the Manhunt's aerial banner hijack attempt to be a bit desperate and, with no mention of Pride on their banner, not terribly supportive of the community», said Gaydar's marketing head Phil Henricks.

Tripp's parents, however, aren't as excited about their son's plans to bunk in the spare bedroom for the rest of his life, and in a desperate attempt to be proactive, they hire Paula (Parker), a «professional interventionist» to seduce Tripp into moving out.

On top of being structurally unsound and lacking in the humor department, The Sitter veers further off track in a desperate attempt at giving the final product a serious side it doesn't deserve.

I actually feel rather embarrassed around this flick: I feel like I'm at a party, and in the corner is a normally inoffensive but not particularly interesting girl, who has applied red eyeshadow with green mascara, and come in nothing but fishnets and a T - shirt in an attempt to get some attention, but everyone's still ignoring her except me, and now she's coming over to talk to me because she's just so desperate... I want to say to her, «Gee whiz, Joey, even with that colossal wardrobe blunder, still no - one cares!

According to Variety, the two have met and, in a desperate attempt to keep the part a secret, Abrams hasn't even told del Toro who he'd be playing.

Gimmicks, such as frequent cribs from the TV show «CSI,» don't improve things - they are desperate attempts to keep an audience's attention from flagging.

Now is not the time to form unholy alliances in a desperate attempt to restore relevance.

The Tigers enter the eighth inning up four runs, but controversial closing pitcher Jose Valverde — who was released by the team after a subpar 2012 season but brought back earlier this season in a desperate attempt to find a decent closer — doesn't find those margins wide enough for comfort.

To those who aren't au fait with their racing history, Alfa Romeo partnering up with the Sauber Formula 1 team might seem like a desperate attempt at relevance for a brand trying to declare themselves as a real contender in a performance market.

The Tiago, on the other hand, was Tata's desperate attempt to prove itself since the Zest and the Bolt didn't click as much as the automaker was hoping.

Not only did I drive around LA at far below the speed limit, but I spent most of the time staring at the instruments in a desperate attempt to both maximize EV usage and regenerative braking.

When one can not dispute the facts presented here about the falsehoods written to you and others by Victoria Strauss there's often a desperate attempt to try and discredit the writer.

Watch closely, some loans to «renovate» may just be a desperate attempt to spruce up a house that is not worth a mortgage by someone who is terribly in debt.

We all know how awful pugs shed, I used the shampoo and conditioner in a desperate attempt to make his shedding happen less and i was amazed by the results, I can literally pet him and not a single hair comes off!

Edge Of Reality not only makes liberal use of art assets and textures from 2010's Fall Of Cybertron, it even makes a desperate attempt to unite the two disparate Cybertron and Michael Bay - verse storylines.

In any case, if people really want to latch onto this in some desperate attempt to downplay the PC, then we better not EVER see any discussions between console gamers about which console hardware is superior.

Dead Man does not reveal the origin of the zombie outbreak, but instead shows humanity's attempts to contain it in a desperate mission that will keep even the most seasoned of Arizona Sunshine survivors on their toes!

It's an interesting attempt to tie RPG levelling together with nonlinear narrative conventions, but we're desperate to play it for ourselves now, especially after such a lengthy development cycle — not to mention a release date on the near horizon.

Of course Blaustein wasn't at all happy with the actor situation, so in a desperate attempt to salvage the project and find talent who could fulfil their needs, he flew back to America to round up some voice actors and then fly them back to Japan specifically for the job — something which was unprecedented in the localisation industry.

I can't tell you the amount of times I've ignored my own advice over the past few weeks to stare longingly at the case of Arkham Knight in store, comparing prices online and working through some serious mental gymnastics in a desperate attempt to justify a purchase.