Sentences with phrase «obvious attempts of»

This is an obvious attempt of damage control.

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The risk with that kind of approach is that obvious falsehoods or offensive views get treated as though they were valid through a false attempt at balance.

The most obvious example is the singular presence of President Trump, and his attempts to lobby for the AHCA.

One of the first references that popped up after the deal was announced — other than the obvious comparison to the disastrous Time Warner - AOL merger — was to Verizon's recent attempt to create its own tech - news site, a short - lived effort known as SugarString.

If culture flows from success, then it follows that an attempt to change culture is far easier to accomplish when the most obvious indicator of success — one that has a direct impact on employee pocket - books — is moving up - and - to - the - right.

However, in case of obvious illegal content for example child pornography, phishing attempts or the like, One.com will act as a responsible company and inform the relevant authorities.

It follows from this that the most obvious way in which a modern central bank can attempt to regulate an economy's total money stock is by adjusting the available quantity of bank reserves and circulating currency.

Actually fallacy, not, but you make the obvious fallacy of attempting to impute implication of strict Bayesian constraints on what should have been obviously an intentional exaggeration to make a point.

God has clearly chosen to work in ways not immediately obvious to us, and we can only assume that He has done so in order that He might be glorified while the vestiges of racism and exclusion, the failed attempts at revitalization, and the nihilism induced by violence might be put to shame.

as usual with your supposed absolutes you attempt to paint the universe in terms of black and white, while it is plainly obvious that it is not black and white, but a myriad of shades of every color.

When you were challenged on this frankly stunning, obvious maneuver, you decided to throw a wall of expertly worded blather about how it's important to be generous to one another and to attempt to establish relationship with those with whom we differ.

His typical pattern of writing is to take a hackneyed, obvious notion like the Romantic view of the corrupt city and the innocent country, and twist it into complex, awkward shapes in an attempt to make it express the far denser mood - thought he felt about the city.

Eric G, it is obvious that you didn't even attempt to explore the facts at NASA regarding the Big Bang information on creation; the questions of what powered the big bang.

I strongly believe the selection of an actor for the «Devil / Satan» role who is African = American and resembles President Obama is a deliberate and obvious racial and political attempt to promote fear in those people who are looking for excuses to rationalize their own bigotry and promote their white supremacist ideologies.

It's one of the greatest ironies of modern science how the attempt to push an obvious proof of God to the attic was done by a priest, in the name of his commitment to science, and then miscredited.

's continued mention of science (not mentioned by his addressee) and his botched attempt to define nearly everyone as a «socie», it's quite obvious this idiot has a severe mental hang - up.

The attempts of such seers as Teilhard de Chardin to set the whole story of evolution in the light of the continually creative love of God have, I believe, despite their obvious deficiencies, much to offer us.

The obvious difficulty of carrying out the provisions of the Law in all their minutiae, in a situation far more complicated than that for which they were originally framed, led those who desired seriously to make the attempts to form themselves into «fellowships» for mutual support and instruction.

As part of an attempt to right the diplomatic balance, we should take some obvious steps like recognizing Cuba and ending our blockade of that island and, in the Middle East, working to equalize aid to Israel and Palestine, while attempting to broker a real solution to that disastrous situation.

Likewise, O'Connor's celebrated lectures on Catholic fiction and the Catholic writer are obvious attempts to formulate a collective sense of the literary moment.

Hundreds of ideologies, the most obvious being Marxism, have attempted to answer this question.

While Curran's attempt at diversity is obvious (one essay is by a lesbian, several are by nonwhite writers, and at least one is written by a thrice - married «encore bride»), and while the authors subscribe to a range of opinions on what constitutes a meaningful wedding, the essays tend to merge into one witty, young - hip - and - urban and mostly forgettable voice.

The responder may begin with a phrase such as «Let's see if I understand how it looks to you...» and then he paraphrases what he thinks the other is expressing, (d) Switch roles and try to state each other's position and feelings on one issue on which you have obvious differences of viewpoint, (e) Practice nonverbal communication by attempting to get messages through to each other with the use of touch, facial expressions, body movements, gestures, eye communication.

It is obvious you continue to avoid current knowledge, but I hope you realize how obvious your uneducated generalizations and attempted distractions are to someone with a spec of rationalization.

Among many other more obvious things, apartheid is also an attempt to restore the legal and social bondage of the darker - skinned that had been self - righteously diminished by the long arm of Victorian conscience, eager to «improve» natives.

Doubtless it is absurd to dwell on death as such; it is equally absurd to attempt to deny it, to cover it up, to pretend that it is not there — one thinks of the pathetic way in which contemporary funeral customs so often try to disguise what as a matter of obvious truth a funeral is all about.

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.

You're not taking some sort of high ground here Adam, in spite of the obvious attempt to spin it that way.

It is obvious that nothing significant is going to happen between us and the alcoholic if we attempt to change his way of life without at the same time permitting ourselves to become genuinely involved.

So resistant to attempts at de-Christianization did a loyal Catholic constituency prove to be that the necessity of some kind of accommodation to the Church became obvious.

This negative assertion therefore stands against all attempts to argue for the autonomous or intrinsic legitimacy of any «life style» and against those who condemn homosexuality from the standpoint of an assumed righteousness of heterosexual marital fidelity or those who, condemning the obvious hypocrisies and oppressions ingredient to the institution of marriage, claim the autonomous validity of a homosexual life style.

With that in mind, I will attempt to address some of the myths propagated by those enduring Wenger loyalists who can't seem to see what has become blatantly obvious to most outside observers.

In one of the most obvious acts of brown - nosing ever attempted, Lingaard has now publicly claimed that Josey Mourinho is just a fun - loving hoot in training — constantly cracking jokes etc — just a lovable fellow apparently.

Hiring Gailey to run the offense was an obvious attempt to put life into an attack that scored fewer points in each of Johnson's last two years than it had in any of the previous nine.

Add to all that a generally pleasant demeanour, an unimpeachable attitude and an obvious affection and respect for the club and everyone involved with it, from the fans to his manager and his teammates, and he was, in summary, exactly the player you'd come up with if you sat down and attempted to create the attacking heart of a football team from whole cloth.

Every player errs, and if a player is seeing more of the ball and attempting more plays, well then it is obvious he will err a little bit more than someone who is trying less.

Unlike the majority of his Leicester City squad, Ranieri has found himself in this position previously, and his comments should be taken with a pinch of salt given his attempts to relieve the pressure on his squad are obvious and well - placed.

Another not - so - obvious, but very good, reason why the Big Latch On is not a Guinness Record Attempt is that what the Big Latch On counts as a latch happens not only during the act of breastfeeding — of both singletons and multiples and tandem - nursings (each baby's latch counts separately!)

The congressional map of Austin is a particular favorite of mine, since that bastion of Texas liberalism is split among districts that meander all across South and Central Texas in an obvious attempt to dilute Democratic votes.

His desire to turn over gambling in NYS to a Malaysian gambling conglomerate, his stealthy attempts to undercut the estimable AG Scheiderman and the very honest Comptroller Di Napoli are so obvious it's pathetic; and he cares not one bit that the tax code in NYS favors the 1 % and corporations to such an extent that property taxes are going to destroy the rest of us.

Sarah notes the obvious tie - in to previous attempts to tar left - wing blogs by portraying individual and distasteful reader comments as representative of the site as a whole.

More troubling, however, is that CampaignGrid's attempt to claim ownership of such an obvious and popular processes threatens to stifle the very innovation that has driven growth in digital politics.

Governor Cuomo promised the «most transparent administration in state history» early in his first term; however, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said of Cuomo, «The only thing transparent about Gov. Cuomo's administration is his obvious attempt to avoid disclosure.»

The broad strategy is now obvious: Democrats will attempt to portray Bernardo as the face of the legislature majority, forcing her running mates to defend her record (as defined by the minority), the one Donaldson recently «warned» them about.

Name calling while calling for tolerance, keen sense of the obvious comments, poor attempts at humor (usually mocking, calling people bigots because they don't agree with), and then losing your temper when you you get called out.

According to Namdas, there was an obvious attempt to blackmail the National Assembly, paint it as an irresponsible institution, one not concerned with the welfare of the people.

«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.

The evidence against him is obvious and totally indisputable, he should just get out of office now and stop the attempted character assasination of his accusers.

The Board subsequently removed the names of the two men but allowed the petitions themselves to remain valid with respect to the other individuals named on the petitions despite what appears to be an obvious attempt at deception.

Despite the attempted clinical detachment of the nurse's description, it was obvious that she was upset, even distraught.